Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Development of the Plains.
A legal status created by the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act that stripped tribes of their independent nation status, treating them as 'children' under US government protection.
Ward of the state appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for The American West, especially Development of the Plains and Changes for Indigenous Peoples.
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