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To the Puritan eye, Native American religions and beliefs, as well as dress and manners were not merely different or primitive, but ungodly. But their cataloguing of Native difference does yield some insight about native cultural practices to the historian.

Conversion narratives are as close as what is available to offer some records of lost aspects of Native American civilization. What is most fascinating about the chapter "Native Voices in a Colonial World" are the similarities Richter draws between two very different narratives: conversion stories and 'Treaty Protocols'. Even when solely authored by Europeans, Richter suggests, and despite their stylization, Richter believes these documents do "preserve something of what Indian people said at important personal and political moments in their lives, and they originated as largely self-contained oral texts, whose structure was largely under the Native speaker's, not the European scribe's control" (Richter 110-111).

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The diplomatic ceremonies were, interestingly enough almost equally as standardized as the tales of formulaic conversion, down to ritualized weeping (Richter 134). Richter sees in these rituals not eternal conflict, but at least some attempts at cultural coexistence on the part of the native populace, despite the negative end result. "Direct military confrontation" with Europeans was deemed suicidal, but through skillful managing of different alliances and ceremonial performances of diplomacy and conversion, the tribes….....

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