Is Froe Luc's France Bringing The Faith To The Indians

In the paintings of Benjamin West’s Penn’s Treaty with the Indians (1771–72) and Frère Luc’s France Bringing the Faith to the Indians of New France (c. 1675) they both showed an encounter between the Europeans and the native people. In the painting, Frère Luc’s France Bringing the Faith to the Indians of New France (c. 1675) it shows a native figure, clothes in a rode patterned with a French fleur-de-lis, kneels at the feet of a personification of the France after queen regent Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV. The native kneels with acceptance to the French faith of Christianity. He kneeled with one hand to his heart and the other to the canvas. Frances figured was more of ownership and authority with one hand on the canvas and one pointing
This picture is important because this is where the first ever legal agreement between Europeans and indigenous people took place. “It was also the first time the former paid the latter for land legally granted to them by the British government”. The treaty was to share the land and resources of the land to help each other survive. William Penn was a Quaker, “The belief that all members of the religious community were equal” Which is different from the catholic faith. For an example where women cannot become a priest. People believe that this event took place, but there is no documented evidence that confirms that this had ever happened. William Penn did have and was able to establish a peaceful agreement with the natives but this was more of a verbal agreement. When more people came to the region, the verbal agreement was breaking because the new settlers didn’t care about what the Penn family had established. The new settlers wanted more land which developed tensions between the Quakers and the