Assimilation is the concept that eventually immigrants or their decedents adopt enough of the American culture that while they may retain aspects or traditions of their cultural heritage, they are identifiable as uniquely “American”. Most if all of these cultural traditions (language, foods, etc..) have been replaced with “Americanized” traditions. Individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritages get absorbed into the dominant culture of a society. Although assimilation may be compelled through force or undertaken voluntarily, it is rare for a minority group to replace its previous cultural practices completely; religion, food preferences, and aesthetics are among the characteristics that tend to be most resistant to change. Assimilation does not denote “racial” or biological fusion, though such fusion may occur.

How native Americans were force to assimilate to the growing american culture