If 8,000 indigenous people did have their feet cut off during the modern era someone would have noted this in diaries, reports and something hideous as this would hardly have escaped public notice. These were probably ancient skeletons. We know the native peoples in the Americas had fierce intertribal warfare where cruelties of every kind occurred. The Aztecs, in particular, performed untold numbers of human sacrifices. Maybe this historian needs to look into this aspect of life in the Americas among the original inhabitants before conveniently pointing the finger at Spain and the US!
Google Juan de Onate, the governor or something of New Mexico, who ordered the mass amputations. Also see my comment at the start of this thread.
The Aztecs, in particular, performed untold numbers of human sacrifices. Maybe this historian needs to look into this aspect of life in the Americas among the original inhabitants before conveniently pointing the finger at Spain and the US!
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I’ve read that the Aztec pyramids ran red with blood continually, after hearts were ripped out of chests and offered to their gods.