Question

How did settlers think they would get native americans to assimilate into their culture

Answer 1

The settlers believed that education was the best way to get natives to incorporate European culture, so settlers set up Indian boarding schools, where natives were forced to study English, attend Christian celebrations, attend church, study subjects colonists thought important. In addition, the natives were obliged to speak in English and to abandon the customs of their tribes and to adopt the customs used by the settlers.

Answer 2

The cultural assimilation of Native Americans was an assimilation effort by the United States to transform Native American culture to European–American culture between the years of 1790–1920. ... It established Native American boarding schools which children were required to attend.