Indians 3

There are different styles of writings. Some styles are different due to the different beliefs of writers. In the works of Joy Harjo and Fray Alonso de Benavides, both write about different types of religion. According to Harjo she feels hate toward the Christian religion because, as a Native American, the Christian religion was forced upon her. Alonso de Benavides, on the other hand, feels that it was a good act to incorporate the Christian …

…to recover from. Foreign invaders overran their territories and claimed sovereignty over the Native American communities, diseases ravaged their populations, and their environments were drastically altered. In many cases, Native Americans were forcibly removed from their aboriginal homelands and livelihoods, with the result that indigenous cultures underwent rapid change. Through these crises, Native Americans turned to their own religious traditions to ease their pain, missionaries attempted to convert them from their traditional religions to Christianity.