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Explain why
Indians came together in the 1920's to fight the
Bursum Bill.

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That would have allowed non-Native people to claim further Pueblo Indian lands if they could prove ten years of residency. The Indigenous governors of the nineteen pueblos worked with John Collier, Indian rights advocate and FDR’s commissioner of Indian affairs, to send representatives to Congress who would voice their opposition to this legislation.

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