While reading We Are Well As We Are: An Indians Critique of Seventeenth-Century Christian Missions by James P. Rondas I found that Rondas did a good job in making the reader see the patterns between the Native Americans and the Europeans and how they interacted with each other, just like the few historians named at the beginning of the journal I was able to follow the points of the subject he presented. Patterns like the transforming and wiping away native culture to fit european ways better in the sense of religion. Explaining religion and its concepts to the natives to help them understand. It seemed to me that the some natives were open minded about the new religion, not all completely accepting it, but showed that “traditions were dynamic intellectual systems, capable of change.” (p.67). That was all mostly ignored when the europeans were documenting natives with white interpreters who rearranged stories. There were a few differences in culture/religion that natives didn’t have was sin and guilt, and heaven and hell. These concepts weren’t familiar with them so throughout the reading they were frequently questioned. Throughout the natives questioning these concepts and seeming like they don’t totally understand them they seem to come to the conclusion that the concepts were bogus saying that it’s “meaningless fiction” (p.72). When Baptism came up it started out as a positive thing, that it “might restore health.” (p.72), but all this changed when the smallpox epidemic started then it quickly turned negative. The natives wanted to incorporate their traditional healing into somes new found religion but it was greatly frown upon by there new found fathers saying that their old traditions were “sinfull” (p.73). Which I found strange since the natives were decently open minded about the christian religion, so why couldn’t the europeans do the same for the natives? These patterns seem to continue throughout the journal, europeans coming in and changing things, natives questioning it and just not being able to see totally eye to eye with each other.