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Here is a downloadable copy of the work sheet given in class. You are working in pairs (if you wish). Remember that your final product should be TYPED using this template.
I got this translation from wikipedia and I'm not sure how accurate the text is and also I read in wikipedia and it says that the text was read in Spanish to the native amercians not in Latin (The Requirement was read in Spanish to Native Americans to inform them of Spain’s rights to conquest)!
Translation
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But, if you do not do this, and maliciously make delay in it, I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their Highnesses; we shall take you and your wives and your children, and shall make slaves of them, and as such shall sell and dispose of them as their Highnesses may command; and we shall take away your goods, and shall do you all the mischief and damage that we can, as to vassals who do not obey, and refuse to receive their lord, and resist and contradict him; and we protest that the deaths and losses which shall accrue from this are your fault, and not that of their Highnesses, or ours, nor of these cavaliers who come with us. And that we have said this to you and made this Requisition, we request the notary here present to give us his testimony in writing, and we ask the rest who are present that they should be witnesses of this Requisition."
Yalda Shadravan
First Encounters Packet
Written by Eduardo Galeano, a Uruguayan novelist. ©1985, translated by Cedric Belfrage.
According to the author,[T]he numbers in parentheses at the foot of each text indicate the principal works consulted by the author in search of information and reference points.