Missionaries to Natives
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Missionaries to Natives
Elizabeth Jahen
History 107
November 17, 2023
Outline
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Introduction
II.
Response
III.
Bibliography
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Introduction
This assignment will discuss and include research on why many Europeans such as the French,
the Dutch, the British, and the Germans all came to missionize the Native peoples. I will include
the whys, the how’s, and anything extra necessary. Background will be given on missionary’s
efforts to missionize the Natives people. The reasoning behind this, meaning the why will also be
described. The response from Natives and how they responded will also be included. Whether a
particular tribe or the tribe in general is focused on, my point in this research will get across.
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Response
The Europeans such as the French, the British, the Dutch and the Germans all came to
missionize the Native peoples because their ultimate goal was to take over completely. They
wanted to first learn from the Natives and then push them aside as if they were never there. They
wanted their land and everything the Natives had to offer. Surely enough it was easy for them to
do because they came like a literal thief in the night. The Europeans came offering a white flag
when they first arrived hiding in sheep’s clothing. Acted innocent like they wanted them to be a
team and solely work together but this was them lying through their
teeth”
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Another main priority other than them missionizing because of economic reasoning is to
convert them. The Europeans wanted to convert them to their religion because end of day they
wanted them on their team. At this time some of the Europeans did consider them as equals yet
many more considered them as less than them which is why it was easy for them to enslave and
take advantage of the Natives.
Whatever their reasoning behind missionizing the Natives was, they still took advantage
in order for them to ultimately get what it is they wanted. Overall, Europeans saw this as an
opportunity to gain power in politics, socially, and economically. They took the chance and won,
sadly for the Natives it was too late for them. The Natives trusted in the Europeans thinking that
maybe if they helped the Europeans and choose to fight alongside them that they would be
saved. That maybe just maybe, their lands would be saved from being snatched and some of the
stress would end. During this time the Natives did what they felt they had to do in order for them
to survive. Some of them had to align themselves with the British at this time, others chose to go
with the Americans, and others thought that this was a time to stand with and for themselves.
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Hilary E. Wyss, “English letters and Indian literacies reading, writing, and New England missionary
schools, 1750-1830”
Philadelphia : Unversity of Pennsylvania Press
Arthur Write, “The First Trial of Jesus,”
The
Expositoty Times 6
(2012).
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This ended up being one of their biggest mistakes because many natives ended up dying
throughout this time. Instead of having the Natives unite as one at this time, they ended up all
splitting up and getting divided.
All in all the Natives had no choice when it came to the Europeans missionizing
them and taking over in the way they did. Whether they supported Europeans and what
they were doing or not, many Natives knew that in a way this was their best choice at
surviving. This was there chance to get passed as unscathed as possible even though they
still were badly hurt, killed, in a way they were changed, well forced to change because if
they didn’t then they did not have any place in their new society.
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Bibliography
Thifault, Paul. 2018. "Native Americans and the Catholic Phase in Puritan Missionary
Writing."
Christianity & Literature
67 (4) (09): 605-628.
https://sbccd.idm.oclc.org/login?
url=https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/native-americans-catholic-phase-
puritan/docview/2447102693/se-2
.
Wyss, Hilary E.. 2012.
English Letters and Indian Literacies : Reading, Writing, and New England
Missionary Schools, 175-183
. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Accessed
November 22, 2023. ProQuest Ebook Central.
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