In my essay I compare and contrast the different ideas of de Vaca and Handsome Lake about Christianity. Both of them used Christianity in their writings as an element, however they had different viewpoints on it. De Vaca used it to treat people in a bad way like he sees them as miserable people, but Handsome Lake used it to treat people (Indians) in a better way. And I will try to prove these things …showed first 75 words of 969 total…

…showed last 75 words of 969 total…the Indians that the only light in the darkness is the Christianity. He used it again for making people believe that he cured Indians by these Christian cross like hand gestures and great power of the Christianity. In contrast Handsome Lake argued that white men were the people who persuaded Indians to go along in a dishonest way. He even said that people (white men) should behave more honest and be reliably toward the Indians.