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Johnson's Bibliographic Reference
1886-78
Source Document Title
Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, the year 1885.
Creation Date
1886
Description
Compiled from official and other authentic sources under the direction of the Hon. John D.C. Atkins, Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Paul Brodie, Draughtsman, 1885.
As non-Indians moved westward, pressures were exerted upon the Indian land base. The federal government consequently evolved a policy of restricting the tribes to specified reservations. This goal was typically accomplished by treaty, exacted with varying degrees of persuasion and coercion, in which the tribe ceded much of the land it occupied to the United States and reserved a smaller portion to itself. On other occasions, the tribe was moved entirely away from the lands it was occupying to a distant reservation. (William C. Canby, Jr. American Indian Law in a Nutshell series)