Answer:
Cultural assimilation refers to the process by which a person or ethnic group that constitutes a minority people imitates the culture of the majority population and, when the process is complete, completely abandons their own culture. For example, immigrant groups or colonized indigenous peoples may abandon their culture, either spontaneously or after religious persecution and coercive measures, called assimilation policies.
Thus, the Dawes Act, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Carlisle Indian School were clear examples of projects of cultural assimilation on the part of the American government, clearly directed by white Anglo-Saxon people, against the native culture.