O Neal - 1507 Words

Miguel Vargas 11-20-15 1st hour Mr. O’Neal Before Europeans had ever set foot on North America the continent was a vast land made up of various Native American nations that had their own distinct cultures, history and social hierarchies. The Natives here possessed all of the aspects that human beings all over the world incorporated into their societies. They had social structures, trade routes and relationships between various Native groups and were by no means a cluster of heathens waiting to be discovered by white Europeans who would come to claim the land they have lived on for thousands of years. Upon their arrival on the continent that was often tagged as The New World and their affairs with Indians in the ways they had. The country†¦show more content†¦Spain brought a sort of diplomacy with them when they tried to coexist their culture and peoples with that of the native inhabitants of Florida. This approach was probably just as much done out of necessity than modern European kindness, because the Spanish sett lers who founded the string of settlement towns in Florida were vastly outnumbered by their Indian counterparts. The Spanish in Florida depended on Indian labor for many of the tasks they were trying to accomplish, and out of respect for the Indians the Spanish crown allowed for certain rights for the Indians to have in order that the two cultures could live side by side while benefiting each other. The leaders of the Spanish colonies held Indian Chiefs in high regards and granted them all of the awards that would be bestowed upon a man of Spanish royalty. According to the Spanish way of thinking in the 16th century, it was necessary for the Indian leaders to pledge allegiance as allies to Spain and through the allegiance of the chiefs would come the allegiance of the men and women that the chiefs ruled over. The Spanish Crown granted the natives rights such as a representatives known as a defender of the Indians in court proceedings and actually let them be involved in court proceedings which is more than the English would have done in their