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Open Stax: The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture eBookOpen Stax: The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture eBook
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11th - 12th
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eBook

Open Stax: The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture

Curated by ACT

Read this section from a chapter on "Westward Expansion" to learn about the methods that the U.S. government used to address the "Indian threat" during the settlement of the West and explain the process of "Americanization" as it applied to Indians in the nineteenth century.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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