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lose the rights to their ancestral lands and therefore have no protection against the encroaching white settlers. When the settlers actually did begin moving onto tribal lands, there were strong tensions between the white miners and the tribes, which caused small skirmishes that raised the tribes' fears of United States military intervention.
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tribes at a council in order to convince the tribes that the white man was encroaching on their lands and that they needed to defend them. The
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