B PRIMARY SOURCE
Bartolomé de Las
Casas
Las Casas was an early Spanish
missionary who watched fellow
Spaniards unleash attack dogs on
Native Americans
Their other frightening weapon after
the horses: twenty hunting
greyhounds. They were unleashed and
fell on the Indians at the cry of
Tómalo! ["Get them!"). Within an hour
they had preyed on one hundred of
them. As the Indians were used to
going completely naked, it is easy to
imagine what the fierce greyhounds
did, urged to bite naked bodies and
skin much more delicate than that of
the wild boars they were used to....
This tactic, begun here and invented by
the devil, spread throughout these
Indies and will end when there is no
more land nor people to subjugate and
destroy in this part of the world.
SECONDARY SOURCE
Suzan Shown Harjo
Harjo, a Native American, disputes the
benefits that resulted from Columbus's
voyages and the European colonization
of the Americas that followed.
Columbus Day, never on Native
America's list of favorite holidays,
became somewhat tolerable as its
significance diminished to little more
than a good shopping day. But this
next long year [1992] of Columbus
hoopla will be tough to take amid the
spending sprees and horn blowing to
tout a five-century feeding frenzy that
has left Native people and this red
quarter of Mother Earth in a state of
emergency. For Native people, this half
millennium of land grabs and one-cent
treaty sales has been no bargain.
In what ways do Source B and C agree about Columbus / and the Spaniards ?