They treated them badly and they forced them to become Roman Catholic.
- They were forced to work in mines, ranches, and farms.
- They had to pay taxes (encomiendas)
- Bartolome Las Casas (a priest) tried to reform the ways of the Spanish conquistadors and the colonists, but he was unsuccessful.
The Spanish ruled the Natives' area and they took the gold and silver from them.... The Spanish also took many Natives as their slaves back with them.
Many tribes were decimated by European diseases such as smallpox. Those that survived were enslaved, forced to convert to Catholicism, taken from their homelands, and trained to be "civilized" Spaniards.
The Spanish Conquistadors conquered the Native Americans because they wanted their gold.
They treated them dIfferently because they had different methods to get them to help them.
Spanish and British treated the native's poorly. They saw them as worthless.
Native Americans used rattlesnake weed to help snake bites.
The Native Americans helped the Spanish Explorers but sometimes they slaved the Spanish EXAMPLE: Cabeza De Vaca (A SPANISH EXPLORER) was captured by the Karankawa tribe but helped and fed by other Native American tribes.