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Legacy
==Legacy==
By World War I, the Altai mission established by Fr. Makarii had succeeded in converting over half of the region's native population, and organizing them into a network of Christian villages (whereas before most had been nomadic pastoralists). Some eighty-two schools of various classes types were established, along with rudimentary medical care. James Lawton Haney writes,
:"The most progressive among the Church's eight Siberian missions, these schools were operated primarily for the benefit of the native Altai people, although they also served Russians. Through instruction in the Orthodox faith they served to integrate the students into the Church, but they also offered them their only hope for entrance into the modern world through basic education. [...] It is undeniable that these schools served the state's colonial interests in the Russification of the native population. Due to the fact that classes were held in the Altai language and the fact that many teachers were of Altaian or part-Altaian heritage, however, the mission schools also provided the Altai people with a vision of a new social identity beyond the village or tribe. Even Soviet researchers have acknowledged that the schools played a significant role in cultural development of the Altai people."<ref> AMG:FAM pp. 64-65.</ref>
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