The first thing that came to mind was the Dawes Act and its impact to the tribes (and don't get me started on the descendants who lived in big cities like Atlanta).

They had to have known what would happen - but the money to be made on the land was too much of a pull to slow down and consider the humans.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/dawes-act.htm

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