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Federal Agents Hope to Change Indians' Attitudes about Land Ownership
Federal bureaucrats devised several methods to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream American values and culture. One strategy involved trying to change Native Americans' traditional sense of communally held land to a belief in individually [...]
Tags: Dawes Act, Native Americans
Item Type: Government Document
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)