As a consequence of the Dawes Act, by 1900, American Indians

The Dawes Act divided tribal lands into individual allotments and allowed remaining “surplus” land to be sold to non-Native settlers. By 1900, this policy had cost American Indians about half the land they held in 1881. Therefore, the correct choice is “had lost half the land they held in 1881.”

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