1 Jan 1887 Jahr - Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Beschreibung:
-Act passed by Congress allowing president to divide Native land into allotments for individual Natives
-Provided 160 acres of land for farming or 320 acres for grazing to cooperating families
-Tried to change nomadic lifestyle of Natives to a life of farming
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