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

They sought to accelerate the acculturation and assimilation of the many immigrants into one people, which, as the Massachusetts political and literary figure Fisher Ames pointed out, meant, “to use the modern jargon, nationalized.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

That was due in part to assimilation of the Ashkenazi population -- forced and otherwise -- in the Soviet Union, the United States and Israel, where Hebrew is the official language.

From Barron's • Oct. 26, 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