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- The 1887 passage of the General Allotment Act, colloquially known as the Dawes Act, upended this system of communal land ownership and, in doing so, struck a historic blow at Native Americans’ political rights, economic sufficiency, and cultural heritage.
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Dawes General Allotment Act, (February 8, 1887), U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual Native Americans, with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man’s image.
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The Dawes Act compelled Native Americans to adopt European American culture by prohibiting Indigenous cultural practices and encouraging settler cultural practices and ideologies into Native American families and children.
The Dawes Act of 1887, sometimes referred to as the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 or the General Allotment Act, was signed into law on January 8, 1887, by US President Grover Cleveland. The act authorized the president to confiscate and redistribute tribal lands in the American West.
- The Dawes Plan is a completely separate thing from the Dawes Act. It dates from 1924 and was a plan to end hyper inflation in Weimar Germany and to...
- ElephantFriend KoKo is correct in saying that the 5 Civilized Tribes did not like the Dawes Act. However, there are two inaccuracies that I would l...
- People are generally naturally afraid of others that are different than them, as they aren't sure how to approach them and such. The same thing hap...
- Most of them got death. A few got to keep a couple acres of land and maybe a theorized citizenship.
- I'm white, but I can't believe the hubris of the Government or the settlers in believing their way of life and their religion would be better for N...
- As a whole, it generally hurt Native Americans. The Dawes Act was an act created to divide and conquer the plains indians, and was also a coercion...
- Of course some agreed to move peacefully. There has never been (and never will be) a people who fight in absolute unity. Not everyone can or is wil...
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- They destroyed tribal government systems, and broke the Native American culture into pieces. The Native American culture was based on cooperation,...
Jul 9, 2021 · The Dawes Act, passed in 1887, broke up tribal lands and forced Native Americans to assimilate into mainstream US society. Learn how the act affected Native Americans' land, culture, and identity in the Badlands area.
Feb 8, 2022 · The Dawes Act was a federal law that broke up reservation land and granted individual allotments to Native Americans. It was part of a policy to assimilate Indians into White American culture and resulted in land loss, poverty, and cultural disruption.
Sep 6, 2021 · The Dawes Act was a U.S. law that illegally dissolved 90 million acres of Native lands from 1887 to 1934. It aimed to assimilate Indigenous peoples into white society, but had catastrophic effects on their culture, economy, and sovereignty.
Also known as the General Allotment Act of 1887, the Dawes Act resulted in the loss of 90 million acres (36 million hectares) of Native lands from 1887 to 1934 — the equivalent of two-thirds of all tribal landholdings at the time.
