According to the passage, the type of landownership initially obtainable by Native Americans under the Dawes Act diff...

I chose E as the right answer. I know why B is correct (it is in the definition of the act). However, it would be even clearer why B is the answer if we remove Lines 27-31. That portion of the passage does not help answering this particular question, and I would like to know how attack/reduce this margin of error in interpretation. When I was going through the answer choices, B would have been the most attractive choice for me right away had lines 27-31 were not in the passage. Those lines, to me, are indicative that the Native Americans could sell their land, just not to Non-Native Americans. Sale of the land between Native American to Native American did not violate the first element/reason as to why such act passed (disruption of the traditional way of Native American life). So, what I got from this is that they could sell their land just not to non-native Americans. Clearly, the reasoning is wrong. What can I possibly do not to fall in this trap? What can be done to prevent portions of the passage against an answer choice to make answer incorrectly? I chose E (government to charge owners a fee for developing their land) because at the end of the passage the author tells you that leasing the Native American land was among the primarily activities of the US government.