Like a Cloud

“Like a cloud, the Wiraqochas, the white men demanding gold, invaded us After seizing our father Inca; After deceiving him, they put him to death. He with the heart of a puma, the adroitness of a fox, they killed as if he were a llama. Hail fell, lightening struck, the sun sank, night came. And in their terror, the elders and the people buried themselves alive.” Author unknown. Although some believe that the Europeans had …

…with the Europeans, but the Europeans just speed up the process of the major downfall of the population of first nation’s people. The one thing that I do wonder, that was quoted by a Spanish priest, was if Columbus knew what was going to happen to the first nation peoples when he took over their land, would he have done it? A question that will never be answered, but I will often think about.