"Knew". The authorities knew of his opinion and apparently didn't consider it important enough to act on it.
So? Your point being? That they should have been kept as a separate nation by any means?
That's the problem here, nomadic and settled peoples tend to have a different definition of land belonging to someone. From these different definitions conflict is bound to arise, and before woke idiocy surrendering to foreigners was considered not cool by either side.
No, that didn't stop them either. Have you read up on encomienda? It was more like an extended serfdom than typical slavery, but the point stands.
Also unlike slaves from Africa, natives didn't need to be bought and shipped, so it certainly wasn't just an ideological preference.
Not free, they had to work for it
For the Church of course, but that is an obvious yet technical difference.
How is making locals work for them supposed to make the Spanish look good?
1.Considering that Teutonic order was supported after that only by germans,not entire Europe, it worked.
2.No - but even if only 20 big villages survived plagues,there still shoud be metiso looking people there.Which is not the case.
3.Foreigners were american here,not indians - so they should behave like local indian law dictate.Or come back to their homes.
4.Serfdoom not worst then polish gentry applied to white catholic peasants in Poland.Much better then tsar or protestant slavery.
5.Then you are not free too.They still have their own lands and rights.More then commoners in England,becouse they do not starved to death.Church,unless protestant,supported poor.
6.Becouse they worked not only as labourers,but also as elites - all as free people.They were treated better then commoners in protestant countries,who formally was free - to die from hunger.Something which not happen to indians on church lands in South America.