Persecution Of Native American Indians
by Photo Researchers
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Persecution Of Native American Indians
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Photo Researchers
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Spanish mistreatment of Indians was notorious. In their search for wealth, de Soto and his men tortured and brutally killed many Indians. Hernando de Soto (1496/1497-1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador. He explored and colonized Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras and Peru, where the expedition, led by Francisco Pizarro, conquered the Incan Empire. In 1536 Soto returned to Spain a rich man due to the gold stolen from the Incas. In 1537 the King of Spain granted him the rights the conquer Florida. He led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States, thus becoming the first European documented to have crossed the Mississippi River. A vast undertaking, de Soto's North American expedition ranged throughout the southeastern United States searching for gold and a passage to China. De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the Mississippi River in Arkansas or Louisiana.
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