Religion was another area of life in which the Europeans altered as religious reforms was often influenced and subsequently up the Native Americans forced. Many European settlers had a religious mandate; they viewed the Indigenous peoples as being lost , unholy and in need of a saviour which came in the form of Jesus Christ. In an account given in the journal of an English settler it read “so that I hope in god as he hath miraculously preserved us hither from all dangers both of sea and land & their fury so he will make us authors of his holy will in converting them to our true Christian faith” (National Archives). The brings forth notions of the European intent to convert the Natives into Christians. Additionally, in parts of Eastern Canada
