The time came when we had to forsake our village at Like-a-fish-hook Bend, for the government wanted the Indians to become farmers. 'You should take allotments,' our [Bureau of Indian Affairs] agent would say. 'The big game is being killed off, and you must plant bigger fields or starve. The government will give you plows and cattle.' All knew that the agent's words were true, and little by little our village was broken up. In the summer of my sixteenth year nearly a third of my tribe left to take up allotments." The paragraph above describes the effect of the
(A) Wade-Davis Bill
(B) Hatch Act
(C) Morrill Land Grant Act
(D) Homestead Act
(E) Dawes Severalty Act
Answer: (E) Dawes Severalty Act
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