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• Reformers introduced the policy of concentrating Indians by giving them a choice to die or getting civilized into the American culture. In which Indians will be trained to be skilled worker or farmer and will also be taught the values, (American) language and morals. Many Indians refused this policy, and then soon after the government adopted the policy of the Dawes Act in 1887. Under the Dawes Act of 1887 Indian families were each granted 160 acres. This drew many Indians, but due to lack or no farming skills they fail to make money out of it, which led to reserved lands not allocated to Indians being open to non- Indian homesteader. In which, Whites were benefited more than anyone else. Later Burke Act was being passed in 1906 to fix the

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