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	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Dawes Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		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. Dawes, the aim of the act was to absorb tribe members into the larger national society.
		The act also established a trust fund to collect and distribute proceeds from oil, mineral, timber, and grazing leases on Native American lands.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/dawesa1ct.asp (304 words)

	DAWES ACT PLUS
		A portion of this act allows for the surplus lands of any tribe to be leased for farming purposes by the tribal council for three years.
		This act also allows anyone of Indian descent who claims to be entitled to land under any allotment act or claims to have been unlawfully denied from any allotment to prosecute or defend any action or suit in circuit court.
		An Act of Congress in 1902 disbanded the Kaw Indians (which was the tribe of his mother) as a legal entity and transferred 160 acres to the federal government and about 1,625 acres of Kaw land to Curtis and his children.
	www.angelfire.com /la/brantley/dawes.html (1085 words)

	Dawes Act
		119.--An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes.
		That all allotments set apart under the provisions of this act shall be selected by the Indians, heads of families selecting for their minor children, and the agents shall select for each orphan child, and in such manner as to embrace the improvements of the Indians making the selection.
		That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the removal of the Southern Ute Indians from their present reservation in Southwestern Colorado to a new reservation by and with the consent of a majority of the adult male members of said tribe.
	www.law.du.edu /russell/lh/alh/docs/dawesact.html (208 words)

	Dawes Act, 1887
		Approved on February 8, 1887, "An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations," known as the Dawes Act, emphasized severalty, the treatment of Native Americans as individuals rather than as members of tribes.
		The purpose of the Dawes Act and the subsequent acts that extended its initial provisions was purportedly to protect Indian property rights, particularly during the land rushes of the 1890s, but in many instances the results were vastly different.
		Citation: An Act to Provide for the Allotment of Lands in Severalty to Indians on the Various Reservations (General Allotment Act or Dawes Act), Statutes at Large 24, 388-91, NADP Document A1887.
	www.classbrain.com /artteenst/publish/printer_dawes_act.shtml (786 words)

	severalty - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		General Allotment Act of 1887, national legislation that converted communally owned Native American reservation lands into individually owned...
		The Dawes Severalty Act, passed by Congress in 1887, addressed both concerns.
		The bitter irony of so many of these coercive policies was that those who developed them believed they were acting in the best interests of Native...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /severalty.html (94 words)

	The Dawes Act of 1887
		Congressman Henry Dawes of Massachusetts sponsored a landmark piece of legislation, the General Allotment Act (The Dawes Severalty Act) in 1887.
		Dawes' goal was to create independent farmers out of Indians -- give them land and the tools for citizenship.
		While Senator Dawes may have been well meaning in his intentions, the results were less than satisfactory for the Indians.
	www.nebraskastudies.org /0600/stories/0601_0200.html (450 words)

	Dawes Severalty Act History Summary
		The Dawes Act fit into a broader federal policy of assimilating Indians into the American mainstream, and it dovetailed with government-sponsored education programs and Christian mission work in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
		Scholars generally agree that the Dawes Act was poorly implemented and that it failed to achieve its assimilationist goals.
		Although the Dawes Act was intended to be the ultimate solution to the "Indian Problem," it has instead generated ongoing conflict.
	www.bookrags.com /history/americanhistory/dawes-severalty-act-aaw-02 (731 words)

	The Dawes Act of February 8, 1887
		[Congressman Henry Dawes, author of the act, once expressed his faith in the civilizing power of private property with the claim that to be civilized was to "wear civilized clothes...cultivate the ground, live in houses, ride in Studebaker wagons, send children to school, drink whiskey [and] own property."]
		An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes.
		To each other single person under eighteen years now living, or who may be born prior to the date of the order of the President directing an allotment of the lands embraced in any reservation, one-sixteenth of a section;.
	www.coppercountry.com /printer_101.php (455 words)

	PBS - THE WEST - Lesson Plans Index
		A document analysis of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 sets the stage for evaluating its aftermath.
		Resolved: That the Dawes Act was the result of well-intentioned reformers who had reasonable expectations that it would improve life for American Indians.
		Explain the provisions of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 and evaluate its effects on tribal identity, land ownership, and assimilation.
	www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/lesson_plans/lesson03.htm (3044 words)

	Native American Lands are Sold under the Dawes Act
		The Dawes Act would be the most important method of acquiring citizenship for the Indians prior to 1924.
		The Act also declared that Indians could become citizens if they had separated from their tribes and adopted the ways of civilized life, without ending their rights to tribal or other property.
		The supporters of the Dawes Act not only wanted to destroy the Indian tribal loyalties and the reservation system but also to open up the reservation lands to white settlement.
	www.nebraskastudies.org /0700/stories/0701_0143.html (969 words)

	This Day in History
		The act dictated that men with families would receive 160 acres, single adult men were given 80 acres, and boys received 40 acres.
		The act provided that after the government had doled out land allotments to the Indians, the sizeable remainder of the reservation properties would be opened for sale to whites.
		In 1934, the Wheeler-Howard Act repudiated the policy and attempted to revive the centrality of tribal control and cultural autonomy on the reservations.
	www.thisdayinhistory.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=oldwest&month=10272954&day=10272973 (434 words)

	The Dawes Act
		The Indians, who were considered "savages" by most of white society, would have to completely change their lives with the passage of the Dawes Act.
		People such as Helen Hunt Jackson lobbied for the Dawes Act, believing the Native American to be inferior to the white people, and expecting the Dawes Act to help the Indians live a "better" life.
		In the latter part of the 1880's, the federal government had reduced meat rations and disease killed a lot of the cattle the Native Americans were forced to raise.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/history_oto_tribe/94622 (368 words)

	This Day in History
		Backers of the Dawes Severalty Act believed Indians would be better able to integrate into mainstream society if they abandoned tribal governments and communal ownership of land.
		Despite the sincere humanitarian goals of the Dawes Act and Commission, the ultimate effect was to deprive Indians of most of their landholdings.
		Since the Dawes Act was rescinded in 1934, however, tribal ownership and government have again become legal.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=oldwest&month=10272956&day=10272993 (406 words)

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		The Dawes Severalty Act was primarily concerned with A) keeping alive as much as possible the culture of the plains Indians.
		The result of the Dawes Act was to A) turn the Indians into successful farmers like the whites.
		C) In 1887 with passage of the Dawes Act, the United States government adopted a policy of dealing with Indians as individual landholders who would be assimilated into American society.
	www.gprep.org /fac/sjochs/westernquizzes.htm (1973 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Chinese Exclusion Act The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act excluded Chinese immigrant workers for 10 years and denied U.S. citizenship to Chinese nationals living in the United States.
		Dawes Severalty Act In the Dawes Severalty Act (1887), Indian tribal lands were split up into individual land allotments.
		Homestead Act In 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act, which gave 160 acres of public land to any settler who would farm the land for five years.
	webpages.marshall.edu /~will2/ss-090/ss-090v17.doc (837 words)

	Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
		said lands between them, and the amount to which each is entitled shall be equalized in the assignment of the remainder of the land to which they are entitled under this act.
		The Dawes Severalty Act was approved on February 8, 1887.
		The long term effects of the act were not as helpful as many had planned it to be.
	www.studentcentral.co.uk /dawes_severalty_act__25048 (197 words)

	Development of the Two Territories, Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory
		The same act of Congress which had made possible the settlement of the Oklahoma country also provided for the establishment of a Federal court for the Indian Territory.
		This commission, which was commonly called the Dawes Commission (former United States Senator Henry L. kDawes being its chairman), was a prominent factor in the Indian Territory from that time on until the Indian Territory was merged ianto the state of Oklahoma.
		The Dawes commission negotiated an agreement with the representatives of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations which was signed at Atoka, April 23, 1897.
	www.rootsweb.com /~oknowata/DOTTT.htm (1079 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Dawes Severalty Act divides Indian reservations among individual members on February 8, 1887. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		HistoryLink Essay:Dawes Severalty Act divides Indian reservations among individual members on February 8, 1887.
		Dawes Severalty Act divides Indian reservations among individual members on February 8, 1887.
		On February 8, 1887, the Dawes Severalty Act, also called the Indian Allotment Act, divides Indian reservations among individual tribal members in an effort to assimilate Native Americans into the U.S. population as "responsible farmers." Reservations are divided into 160-acre allotments and assigned to individual members.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=2600 (229 words)

	Statehood
		The act applied to the new Oklahoma Territory and, one year later, included the old Indian Territory.
		The Dawes Act allowed the federal government to divide all tribal lands into allotments (meaning that individual Indians became private land holders; there were no tribal lands left).
		The Dawes Act also called for Indians to become citizens of the United States.
	www.educonnect.com /KeyOk/statehood.htm (508 words)

	The Dawes Act and Thrid Annual Message
		In response, American policy makers passed the Dawes Act, an attempt to turn the Native Americans into yeomen farmers.
		In addition to the provisions of this act, an accompanying act created Indian schools most of which emphasized agricultural and technical skills.
		An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the [U.S.] Territories over the Indians....
	www.pinzler.com /ushistory/dawesactsupp.html (955 words)

	Severalty for the Public Domain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Act's supporters took one way of life-- possessive individualism as embodied by Jeffersonian farmers-- to be the way of life, and then set out to destroy an alternative way-- tribal collectivism.
		The Dawes act did not so much convert Indians to possessive individualism as allow the already converted, the white settlers and railroad companies, to increase their wealth and power at the expense of the destroyed collectives.
		Over a hundred reservations were broken up by allotment and, through the sale of “surplus” lands and other alienable holdings the Indians eventually lost eighty-six million acres, over sixty percent of the land that they had held prior to 1887.
	onthecommons.org /node/607/print (576 words)

	Notecards 901-950
		Also called the General Allotment Act, it tried to dissolve Indian tribes by redistributing the land.
		The introduction of large quantities of overvalued silver into the ecomony lead to a run on the ferderal gold reserves, leading to the Panic of 1893.
		Use of two metals, gold and silver, for currency as America did with the Bland-Allison Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
	www.apstudent.com /ushistory/cards/cards19.html (1400 words)

	Today in History: June 2
		Unclaimed or "surplus" land was sold, and the proceeds used to establish Indian schools where Native-American children learned reading, writing, and the domestic and social systems of white America.
		By 1932, the sale of both unclaimed land and allotted acreage had resulted in the loss of two-thirds of the 138 million acres Native Americans held prior to the Dawes Act.
		The poverty and exploitation resulting from the paternalistic Dawes Act spurred passage of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/jun02.html (1146 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 assigned individual Indians 160 acres each, and after the allotments, sixty million acres of "surplus" Indian lands were given over to homesteaders.
		In 1934, the Indian Reorganization Act ended severalty allotment and the compression of Indian territory, and began to allow for restitution and expansion.
		The Indian protest movements and the Native American Rights Fund, founded in 1970, have continued to work for the restoration of India n lands, although an Indian Claims Limitation Act was put into effect in 1982, which restricted permission to file new claims not already registered with the Department of Interior.
	www.csulb.edu /~aisstudy/nae/chapter_5/001_002_5.50.txt (147 words)

	midtermsample
		Superficially, the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 stands apart from the Sand Creek Massacre.
		The Dawes Act was a law designed to implement “land allotment,” a process by which reservation lands were divided among individual families.
		Over five decades, the Act brought about a rapid decline in Indian landholdings; roughly two-thirds of all Indian-held land in 1887 had been lost by 1934.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/chmonty/amh3444/midtermsample.html (603 words)

	SparkNotes: The Gilded Age & the Progressive Era (1877–1917): The West: 1860–1900
		Under the act, any individual settler paying a small filing fee could stake a claim to 160 acres of free land in the West, as long as his family “improved” the land by farming it and living on it.
		The Dawes Act outlawed tribal ownership of land and forced 160-acre homesteads into the hands of individual Indians and their families with the promise of future citizenship.
		As it turned out, the Dawes Act succeeded only in stripping tribes of their land and failed to incorporate Native Americans into U.S. society.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/gildedage/section5.rhtml (837 words)

	The Dawes Allotment Act
		With all the information gathered rewrite the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887, and then discuss what you would have done differently and your group’s opinions of what was right and or wrong with this law.
		The groups then are to discuss their opinion and come up with a better form of the Dawes Allotment Act, or a reason why it should not be changed.
		The students can then discuss their findings with the class or give the teacher a written form of what they have found and their opinions, and then the teacher can read these to the class.
	www.umary.edu /faculty/jlbrud/His272/DawesAct.htm (827 words)

	Our Documents - Dawes Act (1887)
		In 1893 President Grover Cleveland appointed the Dawes Commission to negotiate with the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles, who were known as the Five Civilized Tribes.
		Once enrolled, the individual's name went on the "Dawes rolls." This process assisted the BIA and the Secretary of the Interior in determining the eligibility of individual members for land distribution.
		The land allotted to the Indians included desert or near-desert lands unsuitable for farming.
	www.ourdocuments.gov /doc.php?flash=true&doc=50 (648 words)

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