“. . . While effectively placing all Native Americans under the jurisdiction [control] of the federal government (as opposed to their own tribal laws and institutions), . . . those who remained on the shrinking reservations and maintained their tribal connections . . . continued to be excluded from the ‘equal protection of the laws.’ . . . “As reformers and federal officials alike recognized, the key to ‘assimilation’ was ‘detribalization,’ and the key to ‘detribalization’ was the eradication of the land base and communal practices that sustained tribal culture. . . .
The claims made by these statements about United States policies toward American Indians in the late nineteenth century are similar in that they both support which of the following arguments?

A) The federal government sought to grant members of American Indian tribes United States citizenship.
B) The United States Congress saw treaties as the best way to promote American Indian economic development.
C) Federal officials desired to encourage the adoption of White American lifestyles by American Indians.
D) The United States wanted to force American Indians to provide labor for agriculture and mining.