How did the Spanish treat the Indians in America

The Spanish conquerors brutally abused and exploited the Native Americans, many of whom died from mistreatment at the hands of their Spanish masters. They forced Native Americans to work for them as porters, in the fields, and in gold and silver mines; to convert to Catholicism; and to pay taxes to the Spanish colonial government. While the Spanish colonial New Laws (1542) formally forbade enslaving Native Americans, they still permitted the colonists to enslave

A Spanish treatment of the Native Americans was poor. Spanish explorers considered the natives inferior. Consequently, they forcibly converted natives to Christianity, confined them to slavery and murdered them.

Why? The Spanish, for the most part, treated the Native Americans poorly. The Spanish were interested in the riches of the Americas, and they had no problem in forcing the Native Americans into slavery so they could mine the gold and the silver for Spain