In the 1870s, the US government began an American Indian policy of

In the 1870s, the government increasingly pursued assimilation, aiming to make Native Americans adopt white American culture and ways of life. Reservation confinement and forced relocation had begun earlier, while the policy of dividing tribal lands into individual allotments was formalized later, especially with the Dawes Act of 1887. The correct choice is encouraging assimilation.

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