The following lines from the text, "How the Spaniards Came to Shung-opovi, How They Built a Mission, and How the Hopi Destroyed the Mission" best shows the narrator's point of view that the Spaniards were trying to change the religion of the Hope people are:
"The missionary did not like the ceremonies. He did not like the Kachinas and he destroyed the altars and the customs. He called it idol worship and burned up all the ceremonial things in the plaza."
"When this mission was finally built, all the people in the village had to come there to worship, and those that did not come were punished severely. In that way their own religion was altogether wiped out, because they were not allowed to worship in their own way."
