Canaanites in a Promised Land: The American Indian and the Providential Theory of Empire

Abstract

OWARD THE END OF HIS LONG CAREER as a colonial promoter, Captain John Smith declared professions of concern for Indian salvation in Virginia promotional literature hypocritical. The founders of the colony, he wrote, made religion their colour, when all their aim was present profit.' The absence, in the early years of colonization, of any sustained effort to send missionaries to the Indian tribes, as well as the ruthlessness which often characterized interactions with Indians

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