What were the "praying towns" established by the puritans of new england in the 1670s?

→ Like the Franciscan missions in Nuevo México, these praying towns were intended as intensely Christian communities in which Indians would shed their traditional culture in lieu of Christianity. In practice, the more than 1,000 Indian residents of praying towns infused their churches with their own traditional spiritual beliefs and created new native forms of Christianity.

Communities of converted Indians