The Indian affair commissioners overlooked the funding, advising, and inspection of these agents. They handled the Natives off-reservation by sending them to military forts, and the church served the Natives on-reservations. As the Peace Policy went into decline it gave way for an opportunity for White reformers to voice their theories on what to do with the Natives. Their theory was to replace ethnic identification by forcing them to identify with American citizenship, replace their native language with English and to convert them into Christianity. To ease the tension of forceful acculturation they used the vehicle of education to completely assimilate the Native youth ending the reservation system.
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