Bartolome de Las Casas: Advocate for Indigenous Societies

Bartolome´ De Las Casas was a Dominican friar, a bishop in the New World, and the Spanish government's unofficial “protector of the Indians.” In return for his kindness toward the Indians he was presented and Indian for his own use as a personal servant. After being amongst the indians for quite sometime he saw two things their simplicity and gentle nature, and how harshly the spaniards treated them. He devoted his life to their salvation and ended up writing the book “Apologetic History of the Indies.” Casas wrote this book for many reasons but I chose to write this on the basis of him trying to prove the fact that these people aren't animals but well developed societies that can thrive in modern times. This took a long time for Casas to do but he eventually did and he published this book and changed the minds of many people on how they view the indian people
Many people saw these new people as
They seemed to have a great judgment and morals when they decided what they would consider a God. They chose their God or Gods based on mainly on ideology, that a God is the best of all things that can be imagined. So unlike the Greeks and Romans the Natives elected pure mortal men as God or Gods. This proved even further to Casas what great society's these were and how developed they actually were.
In conclusion the Natives held great stature in the mind of Casas and many others by their very wise people who had ways of lively and marked understanding, precise governing and providing for their people and making them prosper in justice. Casas had many goals and he completed most of them. Like to baptise Natives and to change the minds of many people about their civilization. Though these were important his main goal was to write this book and get it out there for people to see his point of view and how amazing these people really