Question

“. . . While effectively placing all Native Americans under the jurisdiction [control] of the federal government (as opposed to their own tribal laws and institutions), . . . those who remained on the shrinking reservations and maintained their tribal connections . . . continued to be excluded from the ‘equal protection of the laws.’ . . .

“As reformers and federal officials alike recognized, the key to ‘assimilation’ was ‘detribalization,’ and the key to ‘detribalization’ was the eradication of the land base and communal practices that sustained tribal culture. . . .
The claims made by these statements about United States policies toward American Indians in the late nineteenth century are similar in that they both support which of the following arguments?

A) The federal government sought to grant members of American Indian tribes United States citizenship.
B) The United States Congress saw treaties as the best way to promote American Indian economic development.
C) Federal officials desired to encourage the adoption of White American lifestyles by American Indians.
D) The United States wanted to force American Indians to provide labor for agriculture and mining.

Answer 1

i changed my mind about my answer . i believe it is B.

Step-by-step explanation:

Most countries who have unsafe connections try to make a treaty. Such as former US presidents. The US government signed 370 treaties with numerous Indigenous nations from 1778 to 1871.

Treaties between the US and American Indian Nations (1722-1869)

Treaty of Versailles, 1919.

International Labor Convention, 1949

Geneva Agreement, 1954

International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), 1966.

how ever treaties can be broken and can also be declined.