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feb 8, 1887 - Dawes Act

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Intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with land for grazing. The purpose of the Dawes Act was to destroy the old Indian ways of life and to diminish the power of the tribes

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feb 8, 1887
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~ 138 years ago

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