Congress of the Confederation (1787) passed an act in which special lands were designated:
<...for the sole use of Christian Indians and the Moravian Brethren missionaries, for civilizing the Indians and promoting Christianity. [This act was extended three times during President Thomas Jefferson's administration.]> 1787CC001
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1787CC001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). Congress of the Confederation, 1787, under the Articles of Confederation, approved a Treaty with the Kaskaskia Indians, extended under President Thomas Jefferson, December 3, 1803; also in the Treaty with the Wyandotte Indians, 1806; and the Treaty with the Cherokee Indians, 1807. Daniel L. Driesbach, Real Threat and Mere Shadow: Religious Liberty and the First Amendment (Westchester, IL: Crossway Books, 1987), p. 127. Richard Peters, ed., The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America (Boston: Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1846), A Treaty Between the United States and the Kaskaskia Tribe of Indians, 23 December 1803, Art. III, Vol. VII, pp. 78-79., Treaty with the Wyandots, etc., 1805, Vol. VII, Art. IV, p. 88, Treaty with the Cherokees, 1806, Vol. VII, Art. II, p. 102. Robert L. Cord, Separation of Church and State (NY: Lambeta Press, 1982), p. 39.