The United States Indian policy is never genocidal; in fact government officials want them to survive but on their terms, abandoning tribal identify and assimilating. As the Western territory becomes more populated there is greater pressure to open Indian lands. The Dawes Act of 1887 attempts to parcel out reservation land to Indian families and held in trust for 25 years. The act is ineffectual for several reasons: it is badly administered; most of the land is poor, and individually held property runs counter to the communal nature of Native-American life. Increasingly, the tribes find it difficult to survive.

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U. S. government's Indian policy, tribal identity, assimilation, pressure to open Indian lands, Dawes Act of 1887, survival, Conquest of the Far West

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