I am an army of one.
And it still amazes me that the people (of all colors) that managed to build cities and a once strident economy in the largely desert region that would become Barrio Aztlan ALREADY feel such self doubt, or hate, as to invite their own destruction.
PS: I just finished a not very good Tony Hillerman knock off that talked of the Spanish 'civilizing' Santa Fe hundreds of years before the Anglos arrived - a line suggested in ME(X)A's publications. But, an outpost enslaving natives and grubbing for gold to send home is NOT civilizing anything.