Thesis Statement:
I believe that a profound effect on Indian religion practiced in the
New World was caused by Columbus and the Age of Discovery.
Historical evidence proves that, before there were Europeans
on this continent, there were native peoples living in communion
with their environment and, very often, each other. Their religious
practices were interwoven with their daily lives and religion held
a prominent, significant place within their culture. The intrusion
by Europeans into this peaceful world had profound effects on the
Indians, especially their religious practices. What had been a
peaceful, harmonic lifestyle changed dramatically that fall of
1492. The Europeans entered the native people's world in search of
a trade route to the Indies. They felt it their "duty" to save
these poor creatures in the name of the King of Spain. "It wasn't
so much that Europe discovered Americas as that it incorporated it
and made it a part of its own special, long-held and recently
ratified, view of nature."(Sale p. 75) This arrogance would have
profound effects on these natives to last throughout all time,
including the present.
Let us begin our search for truth by asking ourselves this
question: Why are native peoples in the Americas referred to as
Indians? The naming of these peoples is credited to Columbus. It
was "Columbus, who gave to the peaceable multitude of the islands
the name, indios - because he considered their habitat to be "the
Indies", of course, but perhaps also because he thought of them as
living "in God". (Sanders p. 95) The Spanish word for God is
"Dios".
Columbu...
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