Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s experience with the Native Americans may have influenced him to treat them humanely later in his life, considering the compassion he was shown by the Native Americans during his captivity, among other things.
The Native Americans rescued him and took him in, allowing him to live among them as one of their own, despite the fact that he was a Spaniard. Cabeza de Vaca even went on to work as a healer, providing care and medical treatment to the Native American people he lived with. His compassion for the Native American people may have stemmed from the kindness they had shown him and the bond he developed with them. He realized the true nature of the Native Americans and treated them humanely because of it.
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