READ THE PARAGRAPHS AND THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS QUESTION- What is the main idea of paragraph one?

What terminology (from our lesson on culture: acculturation / assimilation) describes what is happening?

A NEW SCHOOL FOR INDIANS: CARLISLE BARRACKS CONVERTED INTO AN INDIAN SCHOOL
The Secretary of War to-day ordered that Carlisle Barracks, Pa., be turned over to the Interior Department to be used as a school for the education of Indian youth, to be modeled after the Hampton (Va.) Normal Institute, and has detailed Captain R. H. Pratt, of the army, to have charge of it. Captain Pratt has had much experience in the work of Indian education at St. Augustine and at Hampton, and is confident of good results at Carlisle. Secretaries McCrary and Schurz are both much interested in the subject and very hopeful that the successful effort at Hampton will be followed by success at Carlisle, and lead eventually to such action by Congress as will enable the government to establish many such schools. About one hundred Indian youth of both sexes will be sent to Carlisle this fall. A similar effort is soon to be inaugurated in Oregon, under the charge Lieutenant Wilkinson, of General Howard’s staff.
The Secretary of War thinks this is the only way to saving a remnant of the Indian tribes, for so long as the tribal relation is continued they must gradually become extinct. He says the efforts of the government are in the direction of bringing up a class of young men who will be leaders of their people in taking them away from the chase and war as the sole worthy occupation for the hands of men. The rapid extinction of the buffalo and small game and the filling up of the waste places by settlements render this step absolutely necessary to the future interests of the aboriginal population of the country, and it is confidently expected that in time the Indians will be brought from the precarious living of the chase into better ways.. The government has received numerous importunities for volunteer schools, but has and will persistently refuse any such suggestions. The instruction of the Indians will always be kept under the immediate direction of the department charged with the Indian administration. Alluding to his intended visit to Elmira next week with General Sherman and his staff, to be present at the centennial of General Sullivan’s victory over the Indians, Secretary McCrary said he thought it was an interesting fact that Carlisle Barracks, which had been the great school of instruction for so many years for our cavalry employed in fighting the Indians, should have been in this centennial transformed into an asylum for Indian youth, where in future years they may learn the arts of progress.