It's worth noting that the PCP were rather heavy-handed with how they treated the indigenous peoples and there is a mixture of fearmongering and genuine threat that the PCP represented to the indigenous peoples.
To be objective about it, and somewhat glib, the indigenous peoples (at least at the time) were generally "conservative" insofar as matters such as gender relations (i.e. they were typically very patriarchal societies and this conflicted with the PCP position on the role of women.) Obviously when I say "conservative" it doesn't mean that they fit neatly into the western political paradigm of progressive vs. conservative, but I'm sure you get what I'm driving at here. Essentially, the PCP represented a threat to the way of life for indigenous peoples and exactly how much of a threat that is depends upon your position on the matter.
The capture and execution of the PCP leader is almost certainly a consequence of how the PCP treated the indigenous peoples and there's at least a fair argument that anti-PCP fearmongering also played a role in this as well.
The reason that I'm adding this information is because it's important to understand the political and cultural context in which this event happened to avoid playing into colonial narratives about how "the savages" brutally kidnapped and murdered a noble-minded, civilised person without any provocation or warning when the reality is that it was a much more complicated situation. It's also important for revolutionaries, especially in settler-colonial states, to consider these matters (and especially their causes and implications) for the future revolutionary moments in their own states.
It's worth noting that the PCP were rather heavy-handed with how they treated the indigenous peoples and there is a mixture of fearmongering and genuine threat that the PCP represented to the indigenous peoples.
To be objective about it, and somewhat glib, the indigenous peoples (at least at the time) were generally "conservative" insofar as matters such as gender relations (i.e. they were typically very patriarchal societies and this conflicted with the PCP position on the role of women.) Obviously when I say "conservative" it doesn't mean that they fit neatly into the western political paradigm of progressive vs. conservative, but I'm sure you get what I'm driving at here. Essentially, the PCP represented a threat to the way of life for indigenous peoples and exactly how much of a threat that is depends upon your position on the matter.
The capture and execution of the PCP leader is almost certainly a consequence of how the PCP treated the indigenous peoples and there's at least a fair argument that anti-PCP fearmongering also played a role in this as well.
The reason that I'm adding this information is because it's important to understand the political and cultural context in which this event happened to avoid playing into colonial narratives about how "the savages" brutally kidnapped and murdered a noble-minded, civilised person without any provocation or warning when the reality is that it was a much more complicated situation. It's also important for revolutionaries, especially in settler-colonial states, to consider these matters (and especially their causes and implications) for the future revolutionary moments in their own states.