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Under the Dawes Act, the reservation land not allotted to American Indians was sold

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Approved on February 8, 1887, "An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations," known as the Dawes Act, emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes.

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to white settlers and railroad companies

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