Which is a characteristic of a federal state?

D. governmental power is shared

Explanation: In a Federal state, the power within the government typically shifted into several smaller regions. Each region will be given the power to independently regulate Itself (creating legislation, proposing government programs, etc), In United States, we refer to this as States government.

On top of the state's government, the Federal state established the Central government. The central government has authority over the state's government and will be responsible to create regulations that affected a nation as a whole rather than one individual state.

Because of the Dawes Act, Native Americans lost half of the land they owned. In 1881, Native American land ownership was 150 million acres. In fact, by 1900, that had depleted to 78 million acres. Their lands continued to diminish and by the 1930s Native American ownership was around 50 million acres.