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Question: Who devoted themselves to educating and converting the Native Americans!?
pilgrims
quakers
franciscans
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What fisge200 wrote above is true, but he makes it sound so mean!. They priests called evangelizing of the heathen!. So the answer is franciscan!.
COORECTION; this happened in areas controlled by Spain!. In other ares like the northeast, it was as another person here wrote, the pilgrims!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

What is done are done, now I just agree with immensity with fisge2003!.
In my great life, I never seen such stupid people, that forget their origin, their identity, Im talking naturally about europeans that massacre great Indigenous and penetrate there, for what !? a original stupidity and an example for pure human stupidity!.
Russia is here!. all now!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The same people who spread infection disease to them and killed about 90% of them!. Spanish tended just to kill the ones that didn't convert immediately!. That make it easier to deal with the others!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

You mean the ones who drove them onto small plots of low quality land, slaughtering them in the tens of thousands then proceeded to rob them of their culture and heritage by forcing their alien faith on them!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

None of the above!. The Jesuits were the leading educators and missionaries among the North American indigenous peoplesWww@QuestionHome@Com

The Franciscans!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

They were the Pilgrims first who then became Quakers!.Www@QuestionHome@Com