What did the missionaries do to help Indians?

Answer 1

They really didn't in the long run. They robbed Native Americans of their real Indian names, forcing them to take Christian names, and also robbed them of their innate spirituality and religious heritages.

Answer 2

The Missionaries main goal was to convert tribe members to Christianity. Some where allies. But they were also destructive to traditional beliefs and culture. They meant well however, they believed in order to save the tribe from the new immigrants, they must convert and assimilate all natives. The result was that some tribes have lost some of their History, culture and religion forever.

One of the methods used to convert was to take our traditional stories (oral traditions) and find anything similar in them that they could link to The Bible. They would alter our stories. Today, we have several versions of our traditional stories. And we can tell which ones have been Christianized by the language used in the story. Such as white and dark spirits being considered purity and evil. This is a European concept, not Native American. Natives didn't believe that everything dark meant evil and everything white meant good. White could mean mist and dark could mean shadow and nothing more.

Answer 3

The American Indians were forced to turn christian.

Answer 4

Type your answer here...The missionaries effected the native Americans by changing their culture. Many native Americans resisted and this led to wars.

Answer 5

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