Use the image to answer the question.

Question

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

Answer 1

The picture best represents the change from allowing American Indians to hold on to their culture to making them adopt American culture. This reflects the historical context of assimilation policies that aimed to integrate Native Americans into Euro-American cultural norms, often through education and the establishment of boarding schools for Indigenous children.