Question

1. how did policymakers hope the policy of assimilation would work?○ indians would learn to live happily on reservations.○ indians would die off once white hunters killed off all the buffalo.○ indians would blend into white culture after the buffalo died out.○ indians and whites would become part of each others culture.

Explanation:

The U.S. government's assimilation policy for Indigenous peoples aimed to erase traditional Indigenous cultures and integrate Indigenous people into dominant white American society. The destruction of the buffalo, a critical resource for many Plains Indigenous nations, was a deliberate tactic to force them to abandon their nomadic, traditional lifestyles and adopt white agricultural and cultural norms, which policymakers hoped would lead to full cultural assimilation.

Answer:

B. Indians would blend into white culture after the buffalo died out.