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What the best way to describe the aim of the Dawes Act

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The objective for the Dawes Act was to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream US society (White homesteaders) by annihilating their cultural and social tradition. A result of this would be that over 90 million acres of tribal land was stripped from Native Americans and sold to Homesteaders.

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