[RobbyS]

The Spanish missionaries have been somewhat mischaracterized by indian lobbyists. But their roughanded efforts to convert and assimilate the indian were still better than the Anglo method of military conquest and eradication. You may or may not have noticed that most Mexicans have indian complexions.

[Antoninus]

But their roughanded efforts to convert and assimilate the indian were still better than the Anglo method of military conquest and eradication. You may or may not have noticed that most Mexicans have indian complexions.

Also, the French Catholics in Canada had a considerably better record converting and pacifying the Indians and then intermarrying--rather than exterminating and removing them.