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How much land did the Native Americans lose due to the Dawes Act?

150 million acres of land
O100 million acres of land
O150 million yards of lance
10 million acres of land

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100 million acres of land

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Native peoples who were deemed to be "mixed-blood" were forced to accept U.S. citizenship, while others were "detribalized." Between 1887 and 1934, Native Americans "lost control of about 100 million acres of land" (United states has 1.9 billion acres of land) or about "two-thirds of the land base they held in 1887" as

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