Who was supposed to Americanize Native Americans?

The responsibility for Americanizing Native Americans primarily fell to the U.S. government and various missionary and reform groups in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Policies such as the Dawes Act aimed to assimilate Native Americans into Euro-American culture by promoting individual land ownership and eroding communal tribal landholdings. Additionally, boarding schools were established to educate Native American children in Western ways, often forcibly removing them from their families and cultures.