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“Matt, your episode about the Aztecs and Cortez really stuck out to me. In it, you mentioned that Cortez had made the discovery that it was part of Aztec culture to enslave their captives, sacrifice them at their temples and even eat them, and that Cortez found this to be abhorrent. In fact, they had already done just this to a few Spaniards they had discovered before Cortez arrived. You went on to almost defend their actions by explaining it was part of their religious belief structure; that they believed without such rituals, they might lose in battle or their crops might not grow.
So many sources of history these days treat Native people with kid gloves in this way, but have no problem chastising the Europeans for crimes against humanity; when their actions were guided by the very same things as the Aztecs; their culture and their religion. An example of this lack of insight is the fact that many Native people in North and South America were slave holders; they captured their enemies and made them slaves. That story is very prevalent throughout the tribes that were reached in the New World. But these tribes are hardly ever categorized as slave holders in any modern day history classes. I read an entire article in Texas Highways magazine about the adventures of Alvar De Vaca, and the author never mentioned that the tribe who so graciously rescued him from starvation also held him as a slave for years until he finally escaped. I even heard of a case where a Civil War General statue was torn down because his memory stood for slavery and it was replaced by a statue of a Native American. What sense of justice does that make when you know that the Native tribes held slaves for centuries and right up until the 1800’s, just like the General’s ancestors did?
I think you do a great job of avoiding the pitfalls of Presentism, I know it is like walking a tightrope. Keep soldiering on,
Steve from Marble Falls, TX”
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United States of America ·
04/06/24
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