Dawes Act
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dawes-act-189-11218820
title:
Dawes Act
text:
The Dawes Act of 1887 regulated land rights on tribal territories within the United States. Named after Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, it authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals. This would convert traditional systems of land tenure into a government-imposed system of private property by forcing Native Americans to "assume a capitalist and proprietary re
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description:
US legislative act regulating Native American tribal lands
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawes_Act
date created:
2002-06-09T14:18:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T08:16:49Z
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