To: Coyoteman
At least the Spaniards left large Indian populations behind, and attempted to assimilate those of racially mixed background. The same can't be said of those faggoty British hypocrites, who basically eliminated the indigenous populations everywhere they went and refuse to recognize their illegitimate offspring.
Hypocrisy, thy name is ENGLISH.
49 posted on
10/06/2007 10:06:41 PM PDT by
Clemenza
(Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
To: Clemenza
At least the Spaniards left large Indian populations behind, and attempted to assimilate those of racially mixed background. True. In California, it was Spanish policy for soldiers to intermarry with the Indians as a means of bringing them into the Spanish Empire.
Unfortunately, diseases were the primary cause of death at the California missions -- diseases for which the Indians had little resistance in the first generation or two.
By the end of the mission era (1834), the death rate had reached about 90% in most mission areas.
51 posted on
10/06/2007 10:13:21 PM PDT by
Coyoteman
(Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
To: Clemenza
Just a guess,here. Are your Irish?
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