Talk:Apalachee massacre

Romanticism of the Florida missions
This tone of this article is biased to represent the history here in way that is quite different than the way those living at the time would have perceived it.

For one thing, so-called "missions" in Florida, were little more than slave barracoons. The local indians feared the Spanish far more than the English. The Spanish were involved in a systematic program of raping and enslaving the Florida indians on a huge scale that made the English settlements look like camp sites. Representing the English attacks on the missions as some kind of brutality against a "peaceful" population is really absurd. The Spanish conquistadores that ran these missions were vicious, heavily armed, professional soldiers who were maintaining harems of indian girls and wantonly destroying anything that stood in the way of making a few pesos. They were regularly exporting the slaves they were catching and breeding at the missions to a life of horror in Cuban and South American mines and cane plantations where the indians were worked to death. The Rousseauesque portrayal of the situation in this article is unrecognizable from the reality of those times. John Chamberlain (talk) 18:06, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Do you have sources that substantiate this, or are you just expressing an opinion? I'm all for correcting bias, but we can only go by what sources say.  Magic ♪piano 01:36, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

pacific population?
I was just reading the introduction and it says "against a largely pacific population of Apalachee Indians in northern Spanish Florida". Spanish Florida borders the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico so was wondering what is meant by this sentence. I presume the writer meant passive population but don't want to just change it as I'm just guessing.Dja1979 (talk) 18:08, 25 January 2014 (UTC)


 * Think pacific, not Pacific.  Magic ♪piano 18:56, 25 January 2014 (UTC)