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What allowed the government to give Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to try to Christianize them?

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In Canada it was called "The Residential School System" and in the USA it was called "The Americanization and Assimilation." In the USA it was an act or policy put into place by the BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs).

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