The article noted that the military resented the missionaries' activities, because they suppressed alcoholism and prostitution.
That struck me, because it was the same here in Upper East Tennessee(former Watauga Settlement.) The Morovian missionaries (a Pietist German-speaking group from Central Europe active in East Tennessee and Northwest Georgia in the 18th century and early 19th century) protected the Cherokee's land rights, pressed for their recognition as citizens, and opposed liquor which was a standard means of exploitation on the part of land-speculators. (Conscienceless men like John Sevier plied the Cherokees with alcohol and then pressed them into exploitative arrangements for land and women).
Sevier and Andrew Jackson and other of their ilk won in the end, but it was against the best efforts of the Morovians.
Similarly in 18th century Alta California, as well, the soldiers at the Presidio traded liquor for women --- the California Indians' sisters, wives and daughters sold into concubinage --- and Padre Junipero Serra was so outraged bu it that he literally walked back to Mexico City (1,900 miles on foot) to demand that the government suppress this trafficking carried out by the military.
Like the Morovians in Tennessee and North Georgia, the Franciscans in California were not successful in protecting Indians' rights. But it's not because they didn't try.
I'll buy a vowel :-) you must be referring to the Moravians. Another effect of their ministry was upon John Wesley, in a number of ways enumerated here.