You're right that a lot of these stories are retold as propaganda to justify conquest but: > was it hard to just back off and accept that people whoever they a

You're right that a lot of these stories are retold as propaganda to justify conquest but: > was it hard to just back off and accept that people whoever they are should keep their land ? It was only "theirs" by the same process of brutal conquest that the Spaniards later turned on them.