Religious Encounters in a Colonial Context: New England and New France in the Seventeenth Century
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Neal Salisbury
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 16, no. 4, Shamans and Preachers, Color Symbolism and Commercial Evangelism: Reflections on Early Mid-Atlantic , Autumn, 1992, pp. 501-509
Description
Author discusses the ways that settler colonialism intersects with Christianity to create a framework that allows colonists in New England and New France to view Indigenous peoples as less civilized and therefore less human.