"The U.S. Government and Christian Churches plan for "civilizing by Christianizing" the Indians depended upon isolation from immoral white influences, but the priests found the Indian territory was entirely swept away; "The truth is the Indian was gone, swallowed up in the flood of settlement and no longer a factor in the life of the country." There was no further hope of isolating the Indians from degrading white influences, so the Jesuits focused their special ministry on the small Indian children whose religious conversion they felt required isolation from their savage/pagan parents. The era of Christian church-contract schools began on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, but the Jesuit priest's constant ridicule of the Blackfeet Sun religion undermined their religious conversion program. The Indian mission school children on the return home, in attempting to be re-accepted into the tribe and family were determined to be "Indian" like their relatives."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.24
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