Historians have written extensively about the process of Christianization within the Kongo nation, as well as among the Native Americans of Lower Canada. Scholars agree that this process was disparate across the Atlantic World. This paper explores the process within each region through the analysis of two dominant missionary accounts representing each region during the late seventeenth century. These missionary accounts are joined with the stories of Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and Catherine Tegahkouita, two notable indigenous Christians from each region. A comparative analysis of Kongo and Lower Canada reveals that the process of Christianization is highly dependent upon the social and political location of its indigenous converts. This paper argues that the experience of Christianization among indigenous people was neither homogenous across nations nor within them.

Abstract This essay will be interested in what the sami minority experience of swedish majority society can look like. In short, the purpose is to contribute to an increased understanding of sami life as representatives of a minority in a swedish majority society. The primary material that will be used is the film Sameblod (2016) which deals with identity creation, what it can mean to hide or renegotiate one´s identity and also issues concerning reconciliation on various levels. I will identify and make visible different perspectives on life, as they are portrayed in the film. In order to make visible different perspectives on life, its possible problems and how these can be interpreted, analytical questions will be asked of the material. The survey will then address these analytical questions based on different thematic divisions, identity, world-views, sami minority in the encounter with majority society and reconciliation. In summary, the analysis shows some particularly prominent perspectives on life. The first is a sami minority perspective and the second perspective is from a swedish majority society perspective. A third perspective shows a person as a bearer of both a sami perspective and a swedish majority society perspective, which shows how a person´s identity can be shaped and renegotiated through life. Relational problems of various kinds appear in the film. Both on an individual level, on an interpersonal level and in the relationship between the sami minority and swedish majority society. Key words: Sameblod, worldviews, identity, sami minority in relation to swedish majority, reconciliation.