VI. Match the beginning of each sentence in the left-hand column with the endings in the right-hand column. Combine the sentences so that they make sense.

1. It was not acceptable to American immigrants in the 18^th and 19^th centuries that the people they regarded

fatal among Europeans, often proved fatal to Native Americans.

2. Conflicts generally known at the time as "Indian Wars"

civilize Indians adapted the practice of educating native children in Indian Boarding Schools.

3. This new mode of travel made it possible for some tribes

poverty, alcoholism, heart disease and diabetes.

4. In the late nineteenth century reformers in efforts to

as "savages" had built civilizations and by policy, most archaeological remains were destroyed and records obliterated.

5. Under President Andrew Jackson, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830

broke out between U.S. forces and many different tribes.

6. As recently as the 1970s, the Bureau of Indian Affairs was still actively pursuing a policy of "assimilation

oftentimes preceded European ex­ploration, sometimes destroying entire villages.

7. Ailments such as chicken pox and measles, though common and rarely

against the encroachment of settlers of European descent on tribal lands.

8. He was leader of the Chiricahua Apache who fo­ught long

to greatly expand their ter­ritories, exchange goods with neighboring tribes, and more easily capture game.

9. Contemporary health problems include

" the goal of which was to eliminate the reservations and steer Indians into mainstream U.S. culture.

10. American population killed by these diseases, since waves of disease

which forced the Five Civilized Tribes from the east onto western reserva­tions, primarily to take their land for settlement.