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Native Americans During Western Expansion
Around the 1870s, the government handed out ration of food to Indians. Native Americans were not able to freely do anything during Western Expansion because they were only allowed to be in the reservations. They were not able to hunt or farm so the government distributed food to them. Native Americans were not able to hunt anymore because all of the buffalo were gone due to the settlers. Their reservations were poor land with no rich soil to farm. The Native Americans couldn’t supply no more food to their tribes so they had no choice but to accept the food rations from the government.

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