[redgolum]

Just one little word here. Remember that the Spanish had wiped out large numbers of the native populations well before any Anglo Americans came to the scene. I spent a considerable amount of time in New Mexico, and the thing that suprised me is that the Indians I met didn't really like us "northeners", but they REALLY didn't like the Hispanics. Granted, this is only a relativly small number of people, but they general viewed the Spainish as the onese who destroyed their people, and the Americans as the ones who showed up an took what was left.

Abuses in colonial management and conquest happened both with Catholics and Protestants. It would be hard, if not impossible, to nail down who committed the most atrocities.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

Just one little word here. Remember that the Spanish had wiped out large numbers of the native populations well before any Anglo Americans came to the scene.

Actually, European diseases did most of the work in places where the population was decimated.

I spent a considerable amount of time in New Mexico, and the thing that suprised me is that the Indians I met didn't really like us "northeners", but they REALLY didn't like the Hispanics.

Thanks to the spread of the Spanish black legend by American textbooks influenced by Protestantism for 150 years. The Indians were wards of the government, and the government was determined to make the Protestant Christians. Spitting on the Spanish Catholic period was necessary to do that.

Abuses in colonial management and conquest happened both with Catholics and Protestants. It would be hard, if not impossible, to nail down who committed the most atrocities.

We aren't playing atrocity one-upsmanship here. We are pointing to the difference between the Spanish-Portugues-French areas, where there are large numbers of native Catholics, and the Protestant areas, where there are almost no natives.