Some Native Americans today are Christian, some are Jewish. There are Indians of probably every belief system out there. I am an Indian, and I'm atheist. Our original belief systems, pre-Euro contact, had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Christianity or any other religious system that wasn't specifically our own.
You should research that.
European missionaries introduced Christianity to the Native Americans
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Trying to convert them into Christianity
They wanted to bring Christianity to the Native Americans.
To convert the native Americans to Christianity
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to convert native Americans to Christianity.
Spain built missions in the borderlands of New Spain to convert Native Americans to Christianity. These missions served as religious communities where Native Americans were taught Christianity, agriculture, and other skills to assimilate them into Spanish colonial society.
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if the native americans did not agree, then they were either sentenced to death, or forced to learn it.
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