Which is the bests explanation for why many american indians tribes sided with the french during the french and indian war

Both Great Britain and France wanted to expand their colonies into the Ohio River Valley, which France considered a part of New France and Great Britain considered a part of the colony of Virginia.  Many American Indians also fought in the war because their tribes either lived in the disputed areas, were allied with the tribes who lived there or were allied with either the French or the English.

i do believe its (d) it allowed the government to offer pioneers sixty acres of western land if they lived on it and made improvements to it.

explanation: signed into law in may 1862, the homestead act opened up settlement in the western united states, allowing any american, including freed slaves, to put in a claim for up to 160 free acres of federal land. by the end of the civil war, 15,000 homestead claims had been established, and more followed in the postwar years