The picture best represents the change from allowing American Indians to hold on to their culture to making them adopt American culture. This shift is often associated with government policies aimed at assimilating Native Americans into Euro-American culture, particularly through education in boarding schools, which emphasized the English language and Western values while discouraging or prohibiting Native languages and cultural practices.
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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 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
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 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 decision to stop seeing American Indians as inferior and to start seeing them as equal to white Americans
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