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Dawes Act

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Dawes Act or General Allotment Act, 1887, passed by the U.S. Congress to provide for the granting of landholdings ( allotments, usually 160 acres/65 hectares) to individual Native Americans, replacing communal tribal holdings. Sponsored by U.S. Senator H. L. Dawes , the aim of the act was to absorb tribe members into the larger national society. Allotments could be sold after a statutory period (25 years), and "surplus" land not allotted was opened to settlers. Within decades following the passage of the act the vast majority of what had been tribal land in the West was in white... Read more
Dawes Severalty Act
Dawes Severalty Act (1887), an important law relating to Indian...to 1950 . Bibliography D.S. Otis , The Dawes Act and the Allotment of Indian Lands , ed...Prucha, 1973. Michael R. McLaughlin , The Dawes Act, or Indian General Allotment Act of 1887... Read more
The Dawes Act
The Dawes Act The Indian Problem. Richard Henry Pratt...citizenship was extended to all Indians. The Dawes Act. Partly in response to this legal ambiguity...Dawes Severalty Act of 1887. Under the Dawes Act, the federal government would survey all... Read more

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