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    The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887) regulated land rights on tribal territories within...
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  • Look up dawes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dawes may refer to: Dawes (Parish), New South Wales, Australia Dawes Point, New South Wales, Australia...
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    United States Representative from Massachusetts. He is notable for the Dawes Act (1887), which was intended to stimulate the assimilation of Native Americans...
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  • Indian was the passage of the Dawes Act (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887). This act allowed the U.S. Federal Government...
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    : 220 : 12  Subsequent passage of the Burke Act of 1906, withheld US citizenship granted by the Dawes Act until the trust period for an allotment expired...
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  • The Dawes Rolls (or Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes, or Dawes Commission of Final Rolls) were created by the United...
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    no reservation at all. Historical piecemeal land allocations under the Dawes Act facilitated sales to non–Native Americans, resulting in some reservations...
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    them no protection." Passed by Congress in 1887, the "Dawes Act" was named for Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, Chairman of the Senate's Indian Affairs...
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  • The American Dawes Commission, named for its first chairman Henry L. Dawes, was authorized under a rider to an Indian Office appropriation bill, March...
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    1887, the United States Congress passed the General Allotment Act, also called the Dawes Act, to break up communal tribal lands on reservations and assign...
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    Indians received through the Dawes Act. Very soon after many of the Indians losing the land which they earned through the Dawes Act, white settlers moved in...
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    Native leaders endorsed the act, in practice the majority of Native Americans disapproved of it. Cleveland believed the Dawes Act would lift Native Americans...
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    toward western Indians anticipated the assimilationist program of the Dawes Act of 1887. At the end of his term, Hayes kept his pledge not to run for...
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    appointed Dawes as the first director of the Bureau of the Budget. Dawes served on the Allied Reparations Commission, where he helped formulate the Dawes Plan...
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    Allotment Act (Dawes Act), which began the assimilation of Dakota and Lakota people by forcing them to give up their traditional way of life. The Dawes Act ended...
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    passed the Dawes Act, intended to promote assimilation and extinguish Indian governments, but it exempted the Five Civilized Tribes. The Curtis Act of 1898...
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    state in 1907, residents could also vote for state officials. Dawes Act Dawes Commission Dawes Rolls Atoka Agreement Aboriginal title in the United States...
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    and Winnebago tribes. Alice Fletcher helped write and pass the Dawes Act of 1887. This act imposed a system of private land ownership on Indigenous tribes...
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  • to: Allotment (Dawes Act), an area of land held by the US Government for the benefit of an individual Native American, under the Dawes Act of 1887 Allotment...
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    believed to have contributed to Lakota resistance to assimilation under the Dawes Act. The Lakota variation on the Ghost Dance tended towards millenarianism...
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    Representatives. There, he sponsored and helped pass the Curtis Act of 1898, which extended the Dawes Act to the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory. Despite...
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    competent to make or enact if this act had not been passed" The Dawes Act, (also called "The General Allotment Act") was adopted by Congress in 1887,...
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  • genocidal in intent. He also addresses the effects of what is known as the Dawes Act, by which communal reservation land was allotted to individual households...
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    Burke Act (1906), formally known as the General Allotment Act Amendment of 1906 and also called the Forced Fee Patenting Act, amended the Dawes Act of 1887...
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  • such hopes. Henry L. Dawes' wanted to increase the cultural assimilation of Native Americans into American society by his Dawes Act (1887) and his later...
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    Congress to adopt the idea during his administration but, in 1887, the Dawes Act changed the law to favor such a system. The allotment system was favored...
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  • open for settlement under much less stringent rules. Cherokee Commission Dawes Act Indian Peace Commission Medicine Lodge Treaty Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)...
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  • except for the mineral council. In 1887, the United States passed the Dawes Act to begin the allotment of Indian reservations. Since the Osage Nation...
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  • 1893, the United States Dawes Commission under the direction of Henry L. Dawes was established by an act of Congress. The Dawes Act was part of a continuing...
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    Pension Act Hatch Act of 1887 Agricultural Experiment Stations Act of 1887 Texas Seed Bill Berlin Conference Scott Act Dawes Act Indian Appropriations Act of...
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