Indigenous Peoples: Life in European Crossfire (2)
Missionaries often converted Anasazi and othersí settlements into pueblo missions, sometimes destroying kivas and other ceremonial buildings to construct mission churches on the site
Missionaries disrupted the usual gender alignment of pueblo cultures, reassigning duties and workloads according to European concepts of ìmenís workî and ìwomenís workî -- and reassigning communal authority as well
Old European antagonisms between Catholics and Protestants played out on native populations in North America: Spanish and French Catholics, and Dutch and English Protestants, allied with particular tribes whom they set against each other
To survive in the new economies forced on them by colonizing Europeans, many native cultures had to produce wares in keeping with European expectations and preconceptions of ìIndianî styles and goods to sell to Europeans at home. Many of these goods thus