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Q: What did Pratt hope to achieve by getting the Native Americans to assimilate?
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Why were Native Americans granted sovereignty?

To assimilate Native Americans to white culture. Dawes Act was also a factor.


Why did the government try to assimilate native Americans?

There was no assimilation of Native Americans. They were discriminated against and put on reservations as well as killed.


Did Native Americans resisted the termination policy which sought to eliminate reservations and assimilate Native Americans into mainstream America?

True


Native Americans resisted the termination policy which sought to eliminate reservations and assimilate Native Americans into mainstream America.?

True


What problems were caused by attempts to assimilate native Americans?

well first of all it caused the native americans to become aggressive further escalating the conflict.


What laws did the united state enact to prompt native Americans to assimilate?

battle of rego and attas


What did the Spanish do to control or culturally assimilate the Native Americans?

missions were built and the europeans tried to convert the Indians though religion


Why did native born Americans encourage the americanization?

The Americanization movement was design to assimilate people of wide-ranging cultures into the dominant culture


What did the Dawes act to do?

It attempted to assimilate (or Americanize) the Native Americans. This did not work however, as most of the Indians did not want to be assimilated, and wars broke out.


How could the federal government have made the Dawes Act more successful?

by refusing to allow Native Americans to assimilate by making it illegal for Native Americans to sell their land to speculators by providing larger land parcels so the Native Americans could grow more crops by using land speculators as brokers between the government and Native Americans


Why did Native Americans resist assimilation?

Before any Europeans came Native Americans already had their own belief systems and ways of life . Plus the way that the Eurpeans went about trying to assimilate them(killing, conquest, lies,torture, kidnapping..ect) was barbaric to say the least.


What is the Dawes Act and what was the purpose on American Indians?

The Dawes Act was supposed to assimilate the Native Americans into the white culture by breaking up their reservations and giving them individual tracts of land.