In the 1870s, the US government took a new approach to how it treated Indigenous people by

In the 1870s, federal policy increasingly aimed to assimilate Indigenous people into mainstream American society, rather than recognize tribes as separate political communities. The government promoted practices such as adopting English and farming. The widespread division of reservation land into individual allotments came later, especially under the 1887 Dawes Act.

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