[Congressman Henry Dawes ... 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 ...

On this day in 1887, President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes Severalty Act, reversing a long-standing U.S. policy that permitted Indian tribes to maintain communal control of their lands and ...

Yet in the United States, there continue to be deep ... Farrell: A lot of forces came into play. Still, the 1887 Dawes Act is highlighted. Marshall-Genzer: And just a little background here ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Muscogee (Creek) Nation curator John Beaver discussed the 1887 Dawes Act which changed how Indians in Oklahoma owned land. He also talked about ...

together with U.S. citizenship. When the allotment system finally ended, Indian landholdings were reduced from 138 million acres in 1887 to only 48 million acres by 1934. Under the Dawes Act, Cong ...

The U.S. government sends Native children to boarding schools. After the 1887 Dawes act, the U.S. government tried to integrate Native Americans into white society by sending Native children to ...

Indian Land sales were the result of The Dawes Severalty Act in 1887 ... the U.S. Department of the Interior released volume one of an investigative report on the history and legacy of these ...

On the night of April 18, 1775, a rider set out from Boston on the eve of the American Revolution to warn colonists across ...