How did European Americans hope to influence Native Americans to adopt their culture?
through encouraging the Bureau of Indian Affairs to provide monetary rewards to Native Americans who left reservations
through indoctrinating Native American children with European American values by educating them in boarding schools
through providing training and employment to Native Americans so that they could work factory jobs in large cities
through allowing Native Americans to participate in the Oklahoma land rush if they adopted European American culture
is it B?
Yes, B.
Yes, the correct answer is option B: through indoctrinating Native American children with European American values by educating them in boarding schools.
To arrive at this answer, we look at the given options and analyze them.
Option A suggests that European Americans hoped to influence Native Americans by encouraging the Bureau of Indian Affairs to provide monetary rewards to those who left reservations. While this may have been a strategy employed by the government at a later stage, it did not directly aim to influence Native Americans to adopt European American culture. Therefore, option A is not the correct answer.
Option B states that European Americans aimed to influence Native Americans by indoctrinating their children with European American values through education in boarding schools. This option aligns with historical practices in which Native American children were forcibly removed from their families and placed in boarding schools, where they were taught European American cultural values and discouraged from practicing their own. Through this process, European Americans hoped to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream American culture, making option B the correct answer.
Option C suggests that European Americans sought to influence Native Americans by providing them with training and employment opportunities in factory jobs in large cities. While this may have provided some exposure to European American culture, the main purpose was economic integration, rather than cultural assimilation. Thus, option C is not the correct answer.
Option D proposes that Native Americans could participate in the Oklahoma land rush if they adopted European American culture. While this event did occur, and some Native Americans did participate, it was not a widespread strategy employed by European Americans to influence Native Americans. Therefore, option D is also not the correct answer.
Therefore, the correct answer is option B: through indoctrinating Native American children with European American values by educating them in boarding schools.