What happened to the natives?
In Aguirre: The Wrath of God, two natives approach the raft, and are taken aboard. After the priest on the raft attempts to convert them by showing them the bible and saying that it is the word of God, one of the natives tries to listen to it, and complains he can't hear anything. This makes the people on the raft upset, and they gather around, yelling at the natives, who crouch down, presumably in fright.
Then, in the next scene, they are gone for good. Were we supposed to infer that they were killed? The movie didn't shy away from showing other deaths. But it's not obvious that they could have gone anywhere.
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Your scene can be seen on Youtube in Spanish with subtitles. Here is a screenshot with dialogue in English:
I think this indicates they were indeed killed. It is possible that, as this is near the end of the film, Herzog was running up against the end of his budget ($370,000, a third of which went to Kinski), and so the lack of a scene showing the death might have been a lack of cash. In the book Herzog on Herzog, he says:
Sometimes I had to sell my boots or my wristwatch just to get breakfast. It was a barefoot film, so to speak, a child of poverty. (p. 84)
You can read the section on Aguirre: Wrath of God in the Herzog book at Google Books starting on page 76. The film is only very loosely based on the the biography of Aguirre (which is sparse at any rate). The script is almost a complete fabrication. The ending, where Aguirre goes mad surrounded by monkeys in the Amazon, is not factual - Aguirre made it out of the jungle and was later killed in Venezuela. Herzog's telling of his decision-making processes with this film are fascinating reading!
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What happened to the native of America?
After siding with the French in numerous battles during the French and Indian War and eventually being forcibly removed from their homes under Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act, Native American populations were diminished in size and territory by the end of the 19th century.What caused the Native American groups to lose?
During this decade, the U.S. military forcibly removed Natives from their homes and marched over 100,000 people to Indian Territory\u2014up to 25 percent died along the way. For example, the Trail of Tears attributed to the deaths of over 5,000 Cherokee. Disease and famine killed them along the 1,200-mile trek.How did natives lose their land?
Within a few decades, the Supreme Court made rulings stripping Native American nations of their rights \u2014 including the right to be treated as foreign nations of equal sovereignty. In 1830, US Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, forcing many indigenous peoples east of the Mississippi from their lands.What destroyed the Native American way of life?
Individual land ownership, Christian worship, and education for children became the cornerstones of this new, and final, assault on Indian life and culture. Beginning in the 1880s, clergymen, government officials, and social workers all worked to assimilate Indians into American life.A Video of Teenagers and a Native American Man Went Viral. Here’s What Happened. | NYT News
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