When Congress passed legislation in 1887 that allotted individual American Indians pieces of land while also granting them citizenship, proponents of the Dawes Act argued it would give them greater ...
The General Allotment Act of 1887 divided American Indian treaty lands into individually owned parcels of land known as allotments. Also known as The Dawes Act, Native Americans who were registered ...
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