Las Casas Research Paper

Casa San Ysidro is a nonprofit Albuquerque museum located in Corrales, New Mexico. Corrales is located on the western bank of the Rio Grande and is surrounded by the city of Albuquerque, Rio Rancho, and Bernalillo. The city offers visitors a glimpse into the past with its Spanish style architecture, art, New Mexican cuisine, beer, wine, and so much more. Casa San Ysidro is revered as one of Corrales’ treasures. The Corrales brochure found on the Visit Corrales website describes Casa San Ysidro as a “Word class Spanish Colonial collection of artifacts, including furnishings housed in a partially reconstructed 19th century home”. The Gutiérrez home as it was known then, was built in circa 1875 by descendants of Don Felipe Gutiérrez who were recipients

Los Cenzontles is a band, a nonprofit organization, a music academy, a community space for youth and families as well as a hub for Latino artists. The group works together to amplify Mexican roots in the Bay Area and beyond. Los Cenzontles produces original music, videos, and educational tools. They also teach classes in traditional Mexican music, dance, and arts and crafts. The group operates Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center in San Pablo, California. Dr. Lopez and Dr. Morrison were able to bring this band to Sonoma State University Weill Hall, especially for our CALS 165 class.

In July 1598, Juan de Oñate established a settlement in New Mexico at San Juan Pueblo at La Villa de San Gabriel (now known as Ohkay Owingeh since 2005 when it was restored to its pre-Spanish name). Oñate not only extended the Camino Real by more than 600 miles, he also established the northern most settlement of the Spanish empire. La Villa de San Gabriel was located more than 750 miles from any Spanish speaking villages in Mexico. The remote location of the settlement, along with the fact that supply trains were sent to La Villa de San Gabriel only every one to three years, led to the evolution of a Spanish dialect unlike those in the rest of the Americas. New Mexico Spanish, also called Traditional Spanish by some linguists, has deep

Las Casas viewed the indigenous people in a good light, having said that they were humble and peaceful. He also stated that, for the most part, they were the type of people who wanted to mind to their own business and not get concerned with others. He was a spokesperson for the indigenous people in the new world, feeling the pain that these Spanish intruders forced upon them. The Spaniards didn’t share the same view, they were very cruel and unjust in the way that they treated the indigenous people. They had no respect for their culture or for what the indigenous people had created. Even so the indigenous

The Los Banos Unified School District enrolls about 11000 students in Kindergarten through the 12th grade. The School District supports nine elementary schools, two junior highs, two high schools and one alternative high school. The School District is led by seven members of the Board or education. The School district employs five hundred and seventy-five certificated employees and four hundred and twenty-five classified employees. The schools are all currently full, with many residential divisions currently being built in Los Banos. More schools will need to be built and many new jobs will be created, bolstering the population and local economy. I currently work in the Human Resources Department as a HR

10.) 1542: New Laws of the Indies D: These laws forbade the enslavement and abuse of Native Americans, but Spain was too far away to enforce them. I: Many Native Americans were forced to labor for a landlord in order to pay off debt.

You may ask, “Why were innocent Native Americans captured and slaughtered in their homes by the deleterious Spaniards for no stable reason?” Well, here you’ll find out.

Have you ever heard the legend about La Llorona known as “The Weeping Women”?Do you hear that? Do you hear that crying noise? People say that if you hear her cry expect death! La Llorona is real, even though people say she is she is an urban legend. There has been sightings of her in many places.

The New Laws were set in place to protect the natives so they would not be enslaved, although this should be followed on moral grounds, from an economic standpoint enslaving natives brought prosperity to the Spanish government and the discontinuation of the forced labor could cause an economic downfall of the Spanish colonies. The natives were strong people and constructed many well-built building and did a lot of very hard work. So while the natives should be treated more humanly, instead of like animals, the New Laws should not be accepted if the Spanish people wish to continue living in economic prosperity.

The myth of La Ciudad Blanca was first spoken of by the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes in 1526. Several years later the bishop of Honduras, Bishop Cristobol de Pedraza, sent a letter to the king of Spain where he talked about a trip he had taken into the Mosquitia region of eastern Honduras where he had seen a large city where the inhabitants allegedly ate off of plates made of gold. According to the rumors La Ciudad Blanca is said to be a large city that is full of gold. It was given the name La Ciudad Blanca, The White City, because of the large white stones that are in the city and because of its buildings that were made of white stones.

In Document 2, Bartolomé de las Casa, a Dominican missionary, criticizes the Spanish’s policy in their colonies. He believes that the Spanish’s desire for gold blinded them from their purpose, to spread Christianity. This greed turned them into barbarians, making them treat the natives like dirt without even trying to introduce them to religion. Las Casas believed that even though the Indians weren’t Christians, they were still humans and deserved human rights. This lead to the creation of a new provision dictated in Document 3, “The New Laws of the Indies”. Charles V stated that slaves must not remain in slavery unjustly, and should be released at once. This was a big change in the society, because now Natives weren’t seen as property, but as people. This meant that they were slowly gaining more rights and respect in

This is clear in Document 2 of chapter two in The Major Problems in Mexican American History. In this document entitled, "Spain Asserts Control over the Indians of Nueva Galicia, Mexico, 1570," the king of Spain issued a royal order commanding the Spanish in Mexico to control the Indians, convert them, and use them as labor. The king did not’t like the fact the Indians were living in the mountains "preventing interference with their manner and custom of life" (34). By being away from the Spanish established towns, they were refusing to "be more advantageously converted and indoctrinated" (34).

The New Laws of 1542 was a monarchical legal order introduced by the Spanish crown in order to monitor the relations between the Spaniards and the conquered indigenous people. The goal of the New Laws was to decrease and even stop the maltreatment that was happening to the natives. It was not that the New Laws entirely failed. It had parts of it that were allowed to fail. “We command that from all those persons who hold Indians without proper title, having entered into possession of them by their own authority, such Indians be taken away and be placed under our royal crown.” This law stated that if a Spaniard held an Indian captive without permission, he would be taken away by the government. “If it be clear that in justice they ought to be

The Spanish took over the land and people of the New World as their own not thinking about how it would affect the Indians, who were already there. It was almost as if they treated them as if they were animals and not people. There are a few quotes even in our textbook, The American Promise, expressing the Spanish’s feelings toward the Indians. One Spaniard states, “Everything they (the Indians) do is slowly done by compulsion. They are malicious, lying, (and) thievish.” A missionary put it; the Indians “are more stupid than Asses and refuse to improve anything. These beliefs and feelings toward the Indians cause the Spaniards to not only use the Indians for labor but often used violence to punish and intimidate uncooperative Indians.

In his treatise as well as Cruelties of Spaniards, Bartolomé Las Casas supported the Native Americans by explaining that they were just as human as the Spaniards were. He states in his treatise that “…it is unlikely that anyone will resist the preaching of the gospel and the Christian doctrine.” Because he has been in the New World, he has seen the acceptance of Catholicism from the Natives, unlike the crown whom have never seen such cooperation. He continues by taking shots at the Spaniard colonists who fought with the Natives, even though their kings “have prohibited wars against the Indians of the Indies…” It’s rather confusing to find out where Las Casas