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Eventual \'citizenship\' without functional rights was given Native Americans; the Indians.
Schoolteachers and missionaries were dispatched to the reservations en masse.
The results were the essentially treaty-breaking Dawes Act of 1887, related legislation, and dubious court decisions. . . .
In the latter nineteenth century, diverse and influential elements in white America combined forces to settle the \'Indian question\' through assimilation.
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