Chapter 172. Reflections on Forced Assimilation and Indian Resistance, Chapter 17

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Correct. The answer is b. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that, in the late 1800s, the U.S. government abandoned its reservation policy in favor of a new approach that promoted Indians' cultural assimilation, but Native Americans both resisted and adapted to American rule and maintained critical elements of their tribal loyalties and identities.

Incorrect. The answer is b. The author’s main point in this section of the chapter is that, in the late 1800s, the U.S. government abandoned its reservation policy in favor of a new approach that promoted Indians' cultural assimilation, but Native Americans both resisted and adapted to American rule and maintained critical elements of their tribal loyalties and identities.

Correct. The answer is d. As evidence to support her point that the U.S. government transitioned from using military tactics to waging cultural warfare against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, the author uses the white reformer’s statement that Indian boarding schools could be used “to kill the Indian . . . and save the man.”

Incorrect. The answer is d. As evidence to support her point that the U.S. government transitioned from using military tactics to waging cultural warfare against Native Americans in the late nineteenth century, the author uses the white reformer’s statement that Indian boarding schools could be used “to kill the Indian . . . and save the man.”

Correct. The answer is a. One piece of evidence the author provides to support her argument that Native Americans resisted the U.S. government’s assimilationist agenda at the end of the nineteenth century is Luther Standing Bear’s statement, “Though my hair had been cut and I wore civilian clothes, I never forsook the blanket.”

Incorrect. The answer is a. One piece of evidence the author provides to support her argument that Native Americans resisted the U.S. government’s assimilationist agenda at the end of the nineteenth century is Luther Standing Bear’s statement, “Though my hair had been cut and I wore civilian clothes, I never forsook the blanket.”

Correct. The answer is d. The author argues that the Indian boarding schools ultimately subverted their goal by creating generations of Indians who shared English as their common language, which made it possible for them to build a Pan Indian reform movement.

Incorrect. The answer is d. The author argues that the Indian boarding schools ultimately subverted their goal by creating generations of Indians who shared English as their common language, which made it possible for them to build a Pan Indian reform movement.

Correct. The answer is c. One of the examples the author introduces to support her argument that some Indians simultaneously resisted and adapted to the U.S. government’s colonial rule is that of the Crow and Shoshoni, who aided the U.S. Army against their old Sioux enemies because they saw such cooperation as their only chance to “save our beautiful country for us.”

Incorrect. The answer is c. One of the examples the author introduces to support her argument that some Indians simultaneously resisted and adapted to the U.S. government’s colonial rule is that of the Crow and Shoshoni, who aided the U.S. Army against their old Sioux enemies because they saw such cooperation as their only chance to “save our beautiful country for us.”

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