Christianity left an indelible print on the lives of Native Americans. Since the first contact between Europeans and Native Americans, the visitors sought to "civilize" Indians by telling them of God and Jesus. Later, in the nineteenth century, the U.S. government decided to assimilate the Native peoples by neatly dividing them into reservations & assigning the reservations to various Christian missionaries,a behavior hardly understandable to the Indian peoples. Since none of their perhaps six hundred tribal traditions emphasized conversion and proselytization, it was unclear to them why the Christians wanted everyone to worship the same way they did. To many, this time was a Holocaust robbing them their tribal tongues & traditions and replacing them with empty promises of a God of love who punished with a sharp whip.
Humm the more things change the more they remain the same.
Oil.But of course. Chritianity. Even moreso but on a grander scale.
2006-10-15
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