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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.

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