[livius]

That’s true. The tribes were very different, and there certainly were some Protestant divines in New England who wanted to Christianize the Indians.

The difference was that Christianizing the native population was an official objective of Spanish colonization. This, of course, applied to Spanish government sponsored expeditions; privately sponsored ones were uneven, but the Church (particularly through the Franciscan order) usually managed to send some missionaries along to preach to and convert the native population, and even to defend their rights against the aggressive Spanish entrepreneurs.

Many bright young Indians were sent to Spain to study, and the Spanish also taught European art techniques to the native peoples, to the extent that many 17th century “Spanish” art works were actually produced in workshops in Quito and other places in Latin America and then sent to Spain.

[AuntB]

Thanks, livius, I don’t know much of the Spanish influence on the East Coast. England also brought over a few Cherokee, not sure of other tribes. I have a photo of a painting somewhere in my files (?), I think it was the early 1700’s.

Here’s some on that:
http://books.google.com/books?id=8-4s2aXr8oQC&pg=PA150&lpg=PA150&dq=cherokee+delegation+to+britain&source=web&ots=ARRZRWiQY0&sig=4-kczJWAjJdoLaDjOV-dyzi8Mas&hl=en