Native American Obedience To Columbus

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The obedience of the Native Americans towards Columbus and other European settlers eventually resulted in the mass genocide of tribes all across present-day America. For example, Colombus reported that the Arawaks of the Bahama Islands “are so naive and so free with their possessions that no one who has not witnessed them would believe it” (3). The Arawaks’, complete willingness to share was seen as submission in the settlers’ eyes, Columbus even wrote that they would make fine servants, going as far as saying he knew he could enslave them