[Magdalen] Columbus.

[Lynn Ronkainen]

Remembering  the movie Black Robe about the conversion of the Indian tribes of the Great Lakes and st Laurence River area
I wonder if they were of the California state of mind as well?
Lynn 

On Oct 18, 2017, at 7:59 PM, Charles Wohlers <chadwohl at satucket.com> wrote:

And that would have been in the late 1700's, when the Spanish were establishing missions in California. Long, long after Columbus' time such attitudes hadn't changed.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- From: ME Michaud
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 7:52 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Columbus.

A friend was doing research at the Huntington Library
and discovered there’s correspondence
between the Jesuits in California and those back in Spain.

The Jesuits in California maintained that, once baptized,
the native people were co-equal.
The Jesuits in Spain claimed that, despite their baptism,
they remained fit only for enslavement.

Fascinating stuff, I thought.
-M

> Don't you suppose this assumed superiority was due in large
> > measure the paganism of the American Indians?