Compare and Contrast the ways in which Native Americans and African Americans came to terms with mainstream American religion and culture.

African American and Native American Paths to Assimilation in the United States

African Americans and Native Americans have taken similar but different pathways to religious and cultural integration and assimilation in the United States . Both races have more or less , in a nationalist sense become Americans . In matters of language , religious and social values and in their loyalties , they have come to identify themselves with the American country and culture . These similar results are largely due to the influence of a compelling culture over time upon successive generations of Africans and

Natives living in a white European society a society that also took deliberate and strong measures to suppress the worldviews of Africans and American Natives and to replace these values with their own . The differences lie primarily in the cultural and religious backgrounds of the two groups , and in the early social condition of slavery among the Africans , a condition that Native Americans were not subjected to

The Africans that were brought to America as slaves came from a variety of religious , cultural and linguistic backgrounds . These differences among them were ignored or forcibly suppressed , and the slaves were compelled to learn their masters ' language and to adopt the manners and religious observances of white Christians . The slaves had no choice but to comply in these matters , though some features of native African religious practices persisted and were blended into their ways of worship . Generations of African Americans thereafter were brought up in conformity to these changes , and after...