The United States
government passed the
Dawes Act in 1887 with the
purpose:
A. to naturalize all remaining Native
Americans in the West.
B. to assimilate Native Americans into
white man's culture and "Americanize"
them.
C. to relocate the remaining Native
Americans to the east coast.
D. to authorize U.S. Colonel George
Custer to capture all Native Americans.