Assimilation or Resistance

1. Choose the policy (Assimilation or Resistance) towards the United States & white Americans that is the most beneficial for the Tribes to pursue. Describe one political, one social and one economic reason that this policy is the most beneficial for the Tribes. Explain your answer.

Assimilation because although they will never be accepted, they can survive for at least a limited amount of time until they think of possible solutions. Meanwhile, they would be able to make a profit from wheat and cotton in the place of hunting, be accepted, to an extent, and make an attempt to become equal and eventually gain power in the American government. Also, they will still be able to consider resistance as a second option.

2. Choose the policy towards the United States & white America that is the least beneficial for the Tribes to pursue. Describe one political, one social and one economic reason that this policy is the least beneficial for the Tribes. Explain your answer.

The least beneficial policy was to resist, unless they were willing for their peoples to be wiped out. If the natives tried to resist, whites would try to kill off their game and would make it nearly impossible to maintain any source of livelihood, and although they wished to sustain their culture, including equality for women and collective land ownership, this path would lead to ruin much sooner than assimilation.