Key term for Edexcel GCSE History, used in Later Developments in the West.
The legal status applied to Indigenous peoples after 1871, indicating they were stripped of national sovereignty and placed entirely under the control of the US government.
Wards of the state appears in Edexcel GCSE History revision content for The American West, especially Later Developments in the West and Destruction of Indigenous Ways of Life.
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