How did the US government try to assimilate American Indians? Select all that apply.

The government pursued assimilation by weakening tribal identity and treating American Indians as individuals rather than members of sovereign tribes. It also did not recognize tribes as independent nations, undermining their collective political status. Signing treaties generally dealt with tribes as political groups, so it was not itself an assimilation method; refusing to help them was not the policy described here.

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