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Valladolid conquest inquiry
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The Valladolid inquiry is the setting for arguments about conquest and authority. Indigenous criticism read alongside it asks a further question: who can speak to colonial rulers and instruct them?
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Guided course · Module 8 · Lesson 46
Who is recognized as fully human?
At Valladolid, Sepúlveda’s justifications for conquest met Las Casas’s replies. Writing later in Peru, Guaman Poma challenges the terms of such debates by asking who may instruct a colonial ruler.