USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Beginning in the 1880s, the U.S. enacted legislation that resulted in Native Americans losing ownership and control of two thirds of their reservation lands. The loss totaled 90 million acres – about the size of Montana.

Detailed explanation-2: -Much of the reservation land was subsequently sold to the public. The result was greatly reduced reservations, and less tribal control over reservations. Today, just over 56 million acres of land exist as Native American reservations-about two percent of the ancestral indigenous land that the United States occupies.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Removal Era (1820-1850) As the United States grew in population, the federal government sought to displace Native Americans to increase room for western expansion. The policy goals of the era focused on removing Native Americans from Indian Country and moving them west beyond the Mississippi River.

Detailed explanation-4: -Indian removal was the United States government policy of forced displacement of self-governing tribes of Native Americans from their ancestral homelands in the eastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi River – specifically, to a designated Indian Territory (roughly, present-day Oklahoma).