Which was a negative outcome of the dawes severalty act? a. american indians acquired very large tracts of land that they could not reach easily, so it went unused. b american indians were forced to overhunt the land, depleting the bison population. c the wild west shows found a loophole within the act that enabled them to buy huge tracts of land. d the railroads and speculators took the best land and left little fertile land for american indians.