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1. Indigenous Peoples Of North America

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   Relocation and Boarding Schools
   Policies throughout the 19th and 20th centuries focused on forced assimilation and removal. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 resulted in forced migrations, most notoriously the Trail of Tears. Subsequently, federal policies shifted toward cultural eradication through residential and boarding schools.
   In these institutions, children were forcibly removed from their families, forbidden to speak their native languages, and subjected to rigorous Christian instruction and manual labor. While the stated goal was integration into mai…

2. Native American

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   U.S. policy toward Native American groups evolved through distinct, often overlapping, eras marked by displacement, assimilation, and conflict.
   Removal Era (c. 1830s): Characterized by the forced relocation of numerous Eastern tribes, most infamously the Trail of Tears.
   Allotment Era (c. 1887–1934): Marked by the Dawes Act, which aimed to break up communal landholdings into individual plots, often resulting in massive land loss.
   Termination Era (c. 1950s–1960s): A policy phase aimed at ending the federal recognition and trust relationship wi…