How did policymakers hope the policy of assimilation would work? (1 point) Responses Indians would die off once white hunters killed off all the buffalo. Indians would die off once white hunters killed off all the buffalo. Indians would blend into white culture after the buffalo died out. Indians would blend into white culture after the buffalo died out. Indians and whites would become part of each other's culture. Indians and whites would become part of each other's culture. Indians would learn to live happily on reservations.

The policymakers hoped that Indians would blend into white culture after the buffalo died out and that Indians and whites would become part of each other's culture.