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Analyze colonizer challenges to tribal sovereignty in the early United States. (1 point)
Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by allowing Indigenous peoples to negotiate with the American government fairly and allowing them to keep living on their land
American colonizers did not challenge tribal sovereignty. They worked together with Indigenous people and respected their rights.
• Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by trading with Indigenous groups and sharing farming techniques with
Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by stealing land and introducing diseases, plants, and animals that devastated Indigenous land and peoples

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GPT 3.5
• Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by implementing policies and practices aimed at assimilating Indigenous people into American society, such as through boarding schools and forced cultural assimilation efforts.
• Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by signing treaties with Indigenous tribes, but then violating or disregarding these treaties, often through forced removals, land seizures, and encroachment on Indigenous territories.
• Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by using military force to suppress Indigenous resistance to colonization and to assert control over Indigenous lands.
• Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by enforcing laws and policies that undermined Indigenous self-governance and legal systems, such as the Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the Dawes Act of 1887, which sought to divide communal Indigenous lands and allot individual plots to Indigenous individuals.
• Colonizers challenged tribal sovereignty by promoting a narrative of cultural superiority and racial hierarchy that justified their actions and undermined Indigenous claims to sovereignty and self-determination.

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