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Also known as the General Allotment Act, this ended the practice of giving land parcels to whole tribes by giving the land instead to individual tribe members. This freed land in reservations, which was given to white settlers.

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The Dawes Act, passed in 1887, aimed to assimilate Native Americans by allotting them individual plots of land to encourage farming and break up communal tribal land ownership. It resulted in the loss of a significant amount of Native American land and significantly impacted tribal sovereignty.

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