Which of the following arguments did the US government make during the Medicine Lodge Council to convince Plains tribes to move onto reservations?

U.S. officials argued that buffalo herds were disappearing and would eventually be exterminated, so Plains tribes could no longer depend on hunting for their livelihood. They used this warning to urge the tribes to move onto reservations and adopt farming. The correct choice is “the eventual extermination of the buffalo.”

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