assimilation
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See what remains today: In Valentine, Ariz., the Truxton Canyon Training School, where Indigenous children were forcibly sent for assimilation beginning in 1903, still stands near the highway, marked by a small, impermanent memorial.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026
Michael Carrick had a neat way of describing Benjamin Sesko's assimilation into life at Manchester United.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
In this long history of forced English-language assimilation, Puerto Rico remains an outlier.
From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026
With effective assimilation, legal immigration enhanced America’s size and strength.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 10, 2025
Her family’s distress increased in the late 1890s as the U.S. government intensified its push for the culmination of its assimilation campaign: allotment.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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