The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau pg.25-26

"President Grant's Peace Policy was ended in favor of the Government Boarding Schools and his Indian education program policy of civilizing and educating Indian children with a massive dose of Christianity was abandoned. The Government run Indian Schools policy was defined "to kill the Indian and save the child" by cutting Indian students braids, religious conversion, and to "beat" the Indian languages and customs out of the Indian students in government schools far from the reservations. These schools taught a basic vocational curriculum with an English education to allow the young Indians to understand the requirements of living in the American civilization as "white-Americans." It was successful in helping Indians to adapt to the American economy in agricultural pursuits, entering government service, and in educating tribal bureaucrats, but it also caused psychological problems. Brother Van, a Methodist minister sent to the Blackfeet Reservation to preach to the Indians instead turned his attention to the 600 Confederate "renegades" who passed through Fort Benton on their way to Blackfoot Territory, whom the Blackfeet Agent "feared they would prejudice the Blackfeet against the Government and swindle them." The Agent reported Montana Territory was rapidly filling up with the "worst kind of whites" due to the gold rush."
-The Sacred Buffalo Vision by Robert J. Juneau and Robert C. Juneau
pg.25-26