"Blackfeet Agents enforced the Christianizing indoctrination by withholding food rations from traditional Indian parents who refused to send their children to the Holy Family Mission School, and the agent would not recognize the authority of traditional tribal chiefs who still had multiple wives, and who had not publicly converted to Christianity by regular church attendance. The Holy Family Mission on the Blackfeet Reservation built by 1890 baptized 665 Indians, conducted 65 marriages, and 127 confirmations, but the Blackfeet children were not content to sit in classrooms and recite prayers continuously day and night as the priests recorded on New Years Day 1892,"several of our pupils were taken from school by their parents. I complained to the agent. He, Protestant, though he be, showed more than mere words of sympathy. Not only did he send his police to apprehend the deserters, but he also held back the parent's requisitions for provisions from the Government. Thanks to such measures these escapades almost ceased entirely."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.24-25
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