Looking through the perspective of Native American Micmac chief, Agwachiwagan. We can see that Agwachiwagan knew that the French colonized faith is causing devastating impacts onto the Native American tribes. In his monolog, he speaks to his fellow natives of their interested in the French people faith of Christianity, warning them of the troubles it brings. However, he explains that he himself has seen and learned about it culture. Yet during his travels to Quebec and the Three Rivers Agwachiwagan did not see any good the faith had given to its people, instead the faith had changed its people into “a house full of one-eyed, lame, crippled and blind persons”. Agwachiwagan encountered much destruction onto the Natives lives such as disease, …show more content…
Agwachiwagan viewed the religion as “fable” with its only use as being an invention “to inspire [people] with real fear of an imaginary fire in the false hope of a good that will never come to [its people]” (25). The French colonist spread their religion through warlike ways and rearranged society to better accommodate their faith. Through the interaction of French people when they were introducing the natives their Christian religion, in Agwachiwagan eyes, the New World religion was killing almost all of the natives indigenous to the land. The worst thing that happened to the natives was the influx of deadly diseases for which they had no immunity, they were exposed to these illnesses through the interactions with the French colonist. Agwachiwagan explains to his peoples about the colonized faith by asking them questions that only he can answer for him, unlike the baptized Christians, was able to escape “from the clutches of a thousand deaths” against the Christian