Complications with Missions to the Native Americans by...

Missions to the Native Americans by Europeans have always intertwined with complications. Since the first generations of missionaries within the Americas, there have always been mixed motives and cultural misunderstandings in the outreach to the natives. Some groups saw the Native Americans as a group of people who were only a means to an end, motivated by mere self-interest, and not the spread of Christendom. Others tarnished relationships with natives through unintentional means. Even ignorance of the unknown presuppositions held by each culture led to tension between people groups. An example can be seen in the giving of land by the Native Americans to the Puritans. When they natives gave the land to the Puritans, they were unaccustomed to the philosophy of private property, and â€Å"when they discovered that the Puritans wanted to keep these tracts exclusively for themselves, without title ever reverting to those who had originally loaned it, the Indians grew bitter.† Th ere was also an ever-growing sense of Western pride, and many whites saw themselves as superior, especially the English, â€Å"who seemed the most arrogant about this fact and the leas concerned to preserve any aspect of native civilization. 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