Not that long ago, Europeans were not capable of understanding Native American culture, society, and the Native American mindset. When the time came where the Europeans met the Native Americans, it caused the Europeans to think lesser of the Natives. The Europeans thought that the Native Americans were primitive beasts. The Europeans version of a society was much different than a Native American’s. This caused made the Europeans want to change the Native American society into a European Society. Based on the European’s vision of the Native’s society, the Europeans had to “fix it” to make it seem “normal.” Another thing that they noticed when they first arrived there is that the Natives had spears, bows and arrows, wooden swords. They also noticed that they did not know how to use iron. …show more content…
They noticed that they had many gods, did strange rituals, human sacrifices, etc (Doc 3b). If you didn’t believe in Jesus then you would go to hell, according to Christianity. This was used to convert Native Americans to Christianity because they were told if you aren’t Christian then you're going to burn forever in hell (Doc 2a). While the conversion was going on the Natives were enslaved by Europeans and some of them were put in Missions by the Spanish. Of the 350,000 Californian Native Americans that were put into missions, only 100,000 survived. The Europeans misunderstanding and ignorance of the Native American’s society and religions led to very bad things to