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Assimilation Review
Native Americans in the American West
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Dawes Act | A federal law which forced Native Americans to become farmers and landowners by providing each family with 160 acres of reservation land for farming. |
| Assimilation policy | Process by which a person or a group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group |
| Native American Reeducation Movement | Government policy in which boarding schools were used to assimilate Indian tribes into the mainstream of the American culture |
| Buffalo | Central part of both the survival and cultural traditions of Native American tribes in the American west, |
| Reservation | Was created to keep Native Americans off of land Americans moving west wanted |