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-Land given by the federal government to American Indians beginning in the 1860s in an attempt to reduce tensions between Indians and western settlers. On these lands, Indians subsisted on meager government rations and faced a life of poverty and starvation.
A)Battle of the Little Big Horn
B)Black Hills
C)Carlisle Indian School
D)Chinese Exclusion Act
E)Comanchería
F)Comstock Lode
G)Dawes Allotment Act
H)first transcontinental railroad
I)Ghost Dance
J)Homestead Act of 1862
K)reservations
L)Wounded Knee

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Reservations were the land given by the federal government to American Indians beginning in the 1860s in an attempt to reduce tensions between Indians and western settlers. On these lands, Indians subsisted on meager government rations and faced a life of poverty and starvation.

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