Encounters of the Spirit: Native Americans and European Colonial ReligionHistorians have long been aware that the encounter with Europeans affected all aspects of Native American life. But were Indians the only ones changed by these cross cultural meetings? Might the newcomers' ways, including their religious beliefs and practices, have also been altered amid their myriad contacts with native peoples? In Encounters of the Spirit, Richard W. Pointer takes up these intriguing questions in an innovative study of the religious