 Despite American hunger for land , the leadership in the Minnesota Territory did not actually want to remove the Sioux from the territory . Federal subsidies to the tribes were heavily siphoned by the U.S. settlements and removal of the tribes from the territory would have meant loss of this income . 
 Despite American hunger for land , the leadership in the Minnesota Territory did not actually want to remove the Sioux from the territory . Federal subsidies to the tribes <a href='uninflect' title='1'><mark>were</mark></a> heavily siphoned by the U.S. settlements and removal of the tribes from the territory would <a href='been_done' title='2'><mark>have</mark></a> meant loss of this income . 
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