Ethnography and ethnocide: A case study of the Yanomami

Abstract

For in the beginning the Indians regarded the Spaniards as angels from Heaven ... This was the first land in the New World to be destroyed and depopulated by the Christians, and here they began their subjection of the women and children, taking them away from the Indians to use them and ill use them... And they committed other acts of force and violence and oppression which made the Indians realize that these men had not come from Heaven.