President Grant, in
an unprescedented violation of the establishment clause of the U.S.
Constitution (separating church and state), turns over control of
Indian agencies in the federal government to Christian missionaries
in the Methodist and Congregationalist
denominations.
Congress also appropriated money to start Indian schools (at the
request of the missionaries) to teach Indian children industrial
skills and the ways of Christianity in an effort to enforce
cultural assimilation on native people.