The Dawes Act fulfilled a desire of the U.S. government to suppress the Indian way of life & force assimilation to white culture.
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President Grover Cleavland passed the Dawes Act in 1887
The Dawes Act eliminates the lack of private property and the nomadic tradition
The United States congress admitted that the Dawes Act was intended to extinguish native Americans tribal unity, governments and cultures.
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c. Western Native Americans were not used to settled agriculture life