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Board of Indian Commissioners
United States history
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settlement of the American West
- In United States: Indian policy
…Congress to establish a nonpolitical Board of Indian Commissioners to supervise the administration of relations between the government and the Indians. The board, however, encountered so much political opposition that it accomplished little. The reformers then proposed legislation to grant title for specific acreages of land to the head of…
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