This page (from the Exploring US History site at George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media) contains several Native American creation myths from across several centuries, as well as discussion questions.
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Spanish Treatment of the Natives
The Spaniard Bartolome de Las Casas was a Dominican monk and historian who wrote extensively about the condition of Indigenous peoples under the control of the Spanish. Later colonizing powers, such as the English, would use de Las Casas’s accusations and assertions as “evidence” that their own imperialism was more beneficial to natives than that of the Spanish This brief excerpt is from his best known work, A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies.