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To: Interesting Times

Thanks for the ping. The drawing of what they did to Indians is grim. And the map is controversial. No one really knows precisely where DeSoto went.


18 posted on 11/05/2009 9:49:12 PM PST by zot
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To: zot; JoeProBono
"The drawing of what they did to Indians is grim. "

Actually it's a piece of period anti-Catholic propaganda done by 16th century engraver Thomas de Bry.

To my mind these things should be interesting historical footnotes but they are so effective that they at still used as general anti-Western propaganda in textbooks.

21 posted on 11/06/2009 9:18:55 AM PST by Varda
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