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| Advertisement for the sale of Native American lands after the Dawes Act |
The Dawes Act sent Native Americans populating America to reservations and authorized the President to divide communal lands belonging to different tribes and allot sections of the land to individual owners, with amounts based on factors such as status. It also authorized the sale of Native Wmerican lands to American settlers. It attempted to assimilate Native Americans into American culture but didn't include the "five civilized tribes." The government was also given the right to build railroads through former Native American land.
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