Dawes Act 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 ...
Mclaughlin,Michael R."The Dawes Act, or Indian General Allotment Act of 1887: The Continuing Burden of Allotment. A Selective Annotated Bibliography.". American Indian Culture and research Journal . 1996Michael R. Mclaughlin."The Dawes Act. or Indian General Allotment Act of 1887:The Continuing ...
Passed by Congress on February 8, 1887, the Dawes General Allotment Act splintered Native American reservations into individual family homesteads. Each head of a Native family was to be allotted 160 acres, the typical size of a claim that any settler could establish on federal lands under the p...
reformers began to address the issue once more. Although it was not a new idea, the next policy solution to the "Indian problem" was the Dawes Severalty Act.The Dawes Act, also known as the General Allotment Act of 1887, authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands...
The General Allotment Act of 1887, also known as the Dawes Act, outlined national adherence to allotment, a policy of encouraging assimilation to white culture, primarily through the adoption of agriculture as a means of subsistence, and the allotment or parcelling out of land to individuals rath...
Related to Dawes:Dawes Act,Dawes Plan Dawes (dôz),Charles Gates1865-1951. Vice president of the United States (1925-1929) under Calvin Coolidge. He shared the 1925 Nobel Peace Prize for proposing the Dawes Plan to reduce Germany's World War I reparations. ...
69 Chickasaw and Seminole) from the Southeast to what would be- come the State of Oklahoma.68 During this journey, over 4,000 of 15,000 Cherokee migrants died of hunger, disease, and exhaus- tion.69 Moreover, the General Allotment Act of 1887 (the "Dawes" Act), "authorized the ...
Whereas initially, the term ‘reservation’ was synonymous with ‘tribal trust land’, this has changed in the course of the allotment policy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Under the General Allotment Act 1887 (Dawes Act) of 8 February 1887 (24 Stat. 388; now codified...
The U.S. Congress passed the General Allotment (Dawes) Act of 1887 as a part of its assimilationist plan to remake American Indians in the image of the U.S. nation. The act helped constitute a changed Native identity as it contracted res... Black,J Edward - 《Advances in the History...
The Dawes Act, or Indian General Allotment Act of 1887: The Continuing Burden of Allotment. A Selective Annotated Bibliography The Treaty of Fort Laramie with Sioux, etc., 1851 was an important transaction between a number of American Indian tribes and the federal government. Howev... MR Mclaug...