text: Don't make me laugh. There was no intention of transitioning First Nations. And they weren't preliterate: we have lots of texts written in the languages of the First Nations. It's that the White world didn't want First Nations speaking, reading or writing in their own languages. You're engaged in whitewashing.
  
  As for slavery, you should try any number of histories on the subject. You'll learn it wasn't some radical Christian groups. Pope Paul III forbid the enslavement on First Nations people in 1537. And the abolitionist movement embraced a wide political spectrum.