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A photograph shows a large group of over 100 American Indian children standing or sitting in front of a school.

The picture shows Native American children in front of a school. What shift in U.S. government policy does the picture best represent?

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the switch from allowing American Indians to live on their lands to moving them onto reservations

the switch from allowing American Indians to live on their lands to moving them onto reservations

the decision to stop seeing American Indians as inferior and to start seeing them as equal to white Americans

the decision to stop seeing American Indians as inferior and to start seeing them as equal to white Americans

the move from taking land from American Indians to allowing them to reclaim some of their old territory

the move from taking land from American Indians to allowing them to reclaim some of their old territory

the change from allowing American Indians to hold on to their culture to making them adopt American culture

the change from allowing American Indians to hold on to their culture to making them adopt American culture

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The picture best represents the change from allowing American Indians to hold on to their culture to making them adopt American culture. This shift often involved policies aimed at assimilating Native Americans into mainstream American society, including the establishment of Indian boarding schools where children were educated under a Euro-American curriculum and culture, often at the expense of their indigenous identities.