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The settlers were invaders on Native American land and the tribes had made treaties with the government, but the treaties were broken. Reservation agents sold the food given to the reservation and often the men had to go off the reservation for food. Read BLACK ELK SPEAKS.

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Because we stole the land from them. We were people from other countries before we were americans.

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Q: Why did native Americans not want to give up their land to the European settlers?
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