Several states in the mid-twentieth century took the children of native peoples from their families and put them in boarding schools to lose their own culture and learn the dominant culture's language, religion, customs, and behaviors
Often this is seen by native people today as
a. acculturation.
b. ethnocide.
c. syncretism.
d. patriotism.
e. enculturation.
B
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a. Herbert Hoover b. Calvin Coolidge c. Franklin D. Roosevelt d. Harry Truman e. Dwight Eisenhower
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