what influence did the Christians have on the American Indians?

Question

do some christians today still beleive that the american indians releigon is wrong and that the should change, is there use of certain drugs for relegios perposes excepted by people are do they still have to practice in secret afraid of what the law will do to them. and to top it off. do you think that the christians beleif has a influnce on the law.

Answer 1

other than the genocide of many tribes and the near genocide of others the indigenous peoples of North America were forced off their lands, herded into pathetic "reservations". they were forced to adopt white man's dress, language, culture and religion under threat of death and torture. their children were taken from them and put into Christian run schools wherein their children were punished for speaking their native tongue or mentioning their gods and traditions. The Native American cultures have been raped, pillage and demoralized in the name of Jesus, as were the indigenous pagan cultures in Europe.

the peyote ceremony is legal for those tribe for which it is a long standing tradition. i have no knowledge of any other tribal ritual in which "drugs" are used. and yes ... Christianity has influenced US law. in some cases for good and some cases for bad. the horrific yet lawful treatment of the native peoples of this continent have been and continues to be BAD.

the Christian religion has been THE most destructive religion ever to plague the human condition.

Answer 2

Influence. LOL Is that what it's called?

"Hitler had influence over the jews." LOL
"Ghengis Kahn had influence over Asia." LOL

Christians will do anything 'in the name of the lord', to subjugate the people of the world. Look at their track-record: the muslims (Crusades, didn't work), the Native South Americans (Spanish Inquisitions, worked), the Africans (slave era, worked) and the Native North Americans (colonization of America, worked to gain land, but not followers) all felt their wrath.
Christians are damn(ed) funny.

Answer 3

The Christians worked at converting American Indians to Christianity by any means possible. They have taken away everything the Indians had in their lives and left an empty shell. All in the name of God.

Answer 4

Any influence christianity makes on ethnic races is always a disaster.
They are for ever going about sticking their nose in things that are none of their business, allegedly for the benefit of the afore said, their coffers and to give them a biggar political base to further meddle in things they know nothing about.

Answer 5

i'm area Cherokee. I % out with all community individuals. Navajo, Choctaw, your tribe, besides as with the Mayas, Aztecs and others. In that experience if sense on the subject rely of you and others with Indian blood in there vanes. " Indian blood is like gold. No mater how thinly that is unfold, it nonetheless shines basically as brightly" we are all infants of the Grate Spirit. we are all unique and on the comparable all one. wish that helps. playstation . the place is the "haliwa saponi tribe"? Wado! ( thank you! in Cherokee.)

Answer 6

But Christians were so kind to the Incas and Aztecs.

Answer 7

Well, seeing as how they raped their women, killed their children, slaughtered their primary food source the buffalo into near extinction, and implemented an early form of biological warfare on them, I'd say a bad one.

Answer 8

I dont know about them being christians.I do know they tried to exterinate them.Took away their language,land,etc.My 8th great grandmother was Pocahontas.They kidnapped her & held her hostage,after she saved one of them from being clubbed to death by her father.

Answer 9

Much like the nazis had on jews only the chrisitians probably killed more

Answer 10

Nothing good, believe me.