A Picture Speaks A Thousand Words.....

[Seismic Anamoly]

Being 1/16 Cherokee, I can relate to this....never was a truer picture made...some of the most mistreated people on the face of the Planet....and no, I don't think it's "unpatriotic" to say so....

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When Cortes landed on the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico it was Good Friday in 1519, Quetzalcoatl's birthday. The Aztecs greeted the Spaniards with food, gold, and women. The Spaniards set up camp at Veracruz. Tales of 11 tall wooden towers reached Tenochtitlan from the east coast. They were Spanish ships.



Aztec spies learned that these men were called Spaniards and the news was immediately taken to Moctezuma II. He decided to send gifts of gold to the Spanish leader Hernan Cortes.



Spaniards burned their ships and set off on horses to Tenochtitlan. Cortes set out from the Gulf Coast with 400 Spaniards, 16 horses, and several cannons. On his way to Tenochtilan Cortes persuaded many enemies of the Aztec people to join him as he marched through their lands. Cortes soon reached Lake Texcoco and was greeted by Moctezuma II. Moctezuma II and Cortes met and almost became friends. The Spaniards and their native allies were invited to stay in one of the palaces by Moctezuma II.



On November 8, 1519, Cortes began to fight battles. Cortes took Moctezuma II hostage and tried to control the city of Tenochtitlan. When Cortes went to get more soldiers many Aztec nobles and priests were murdered at a religious festival by the Spaniards that Cortes had left behind to keep order.



Moctezuma II told his people to make peace with the Spaniards, but these were not the words of a brave ruler so the Aztecs elected Cuitlahuac, his brother, as the new ruler. Moctezuma II was pelted with stones for continually begging the Aztecs to make peace with the Spaniards. Moctezuma II fell, and the Spaniards carried him back to the palace and he was never seen again.



Although many Spaniards were lost in battle, the Spaniards had won. The Aztec capital was finally destroyed on August 31, 1521. The final attack of Tenochtitlan was led by the Spaniards. They returned to destroy Tenochtitlan house by house and built Mexico City on top of the destroyed city.

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Same thing happened with DeSoto in 1541....eventually, though, the Natives (Choctaws/Chickasaws here in Mississippi) kicked some Spanish @#%$....and several more explorers of various other European descents....



There was never a treaty made by any Native American tribe with the White Man that the WHITE MAN didn't BREAK...Native Americans always honored their agreements until they realized that the White Man wouldn't....no wonder they hated us so much.



Shame....DAMN Shame.