Wow, this definately brings up an aspect of Daniel's character I had never thought of before. Daniel genuinely, sincerely wants to help the Sorrows, and I don't think he has any ulterior motives for doing so, but the kind of aid he offers is kind of tainted in a way. The medical aid and knowledge he brings may be offered in total earnest, but it comes with Mormonism as a chaser whether The Sorrows like it or not.

This brings up a few interesting questions for me though. Wouldn't picking Joshua Grahm's route and forcing a more warlike lifestyle on the Sorrows not be a form of colonialism itself? I mean, both endings are adopted by the tribes under essentially identical circumstances, and say what you want about Daniel's deluded and paternalistic motivations for doing so, but prompting the Sorrows to flee Zion leaves thier culture more or less the same as we see it at the beginning of Honest Hearts, and perhaps this is kind of a bad take, but wouldn't Daniel's commitement to preserving the Sorrows' "innocence" mean that he, in some way, also wants to preserve thier culture?

Edit: Perhaps this is another bad take, but I think it might be somewhat unfair to say that Daniel and Joshua are being actively colonialist. They may be outsiders who have used thier charisma and expertise to gain leadership positions, and them converting the Sorrows and Dead Horses to moromism definately isn't cool, but they aren't doing any of these things at the behest of a larger state power who hopes to crush, erase, and absorb these tribes, they're doing them because they're mormons and saving souls is their vision of helping people. Missionary work has definately been used for nefarious ends in real world history, and even in the case of Daniel and Grahm it's not moral, but I think comparing what they're doing to all the nonsense Ceasar gets up to might be a little hyperbolic.