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Indian Trade and Intercourse Act passed.

Date: 1790

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The act establishes the concept of "Indian Territories," and restricts access to Native lands only to federal agents and licensed "Indian" traders, who become the only white people allowed to legally trade with Native people. Individual settler-colonists no longer have the right to trade.