The French & English at least had the sense to save them for use against their enemies or disobedient colonies...
Yeah, because the english didnt EXTERMINATE the entire population of natives and now the natives need to live in "reserves" like a bunch of zoo animals, right?
At least the spanish crown gave the natives some rights, and the spanish actually married the native women. Not like the anglos, am i right?
A barbaric time, the Catholic church and his holiness, were responsible (judging by their correspondence to their Spanish and Portuguese governers and Bishops) for horrific mistreatment of natives. Shameful...
It was genocide pure and simple.
What hurts the most is the condescending attitude towards the tree great civilizations of those times.: Inca, Maya and Aztec