Ways Missionaries Impacted/Influenced Pacific Northwest Settling Establishments with Native American Interactions.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 02:12:09
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 1 pages (349 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Sociology
Length: 1 pages (349 words)
Contact at trading posts had originally introduced the Native Americans to Christianity. The British Protestants and French-Canadian trappers who were mostly of Catholic faith did this. The trappers were impressed by Native religion and didn't see any problem between Christianity and Native religion. Fur companies usually encouraged their men to get Native American wives and marry into the tribes to make trade relationships stronger.
The Whitman established their mission with the Cayuse at Waiilatpu near …
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…very significant. If it weren't significant, the Native Americans that were opposing Christianity wouldn't have acted so forcefully, and so many conflicts would not have arose. To all Native Americans, the significance was of great impact whether thought to be positive or negative. It was also of great significance to the coarse of history. If the Missionary Era never occurred, things might be a lot different as far as religion goes for the 21st century.
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