Winnatainnanu, Attaquin Weeden -
Mashpee Wampanoag
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--Santo Dominican Friar Anton Montecino (in a 1510 sermon to the Spaniards, reflecting on their cruelty to the Arawaks of Hispaniola and the Bahamas, whose population of one-half million people within 50 years of contact with Europeans no longer existed.) From the book "Columbus and the Age of Discovery" by Zvi Dor-Ner.
"Your greed for gold is blind.
Your pride, your luster, your anger, your envy, your sloth, all blind. You are in mortal sin. And you are heading for damnation. For you are destroying an innocent people. For they are God's people, these innocents, whom you destroyed. By what right do you make them die? They lived in peace in this land before you came, in peace in their own homes. They did nothing to harm you to cause you to slaughter them wholesale . . . Are you not under God's command to love them as you love yourselves? Are you out of your souls, out of your minds? Yes. And that will bring you to damnation."
NOTE: It has been confirmed in just the last few years that some Arawak people
escaped the onslaught and survived.
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