1 ene 1887 año - Dawes Severalty
Act
Descripción:
- Encouraged the brake-up of Native American tribes, with the aim of ASSIMILATION
- Distributed Native American reservation lands among individual members of the tribe to form a system of agriculture more similar to the capitalist white man's
- Gave each head of a Native American family 160 acres of farmland or 320 acres of grazing land
- Helen Hunt Jackson's "A Century of Dishonor" acts as a catalyst -- exposes injustices to Native Americans
- MAJOR LOSS OF NATIVE LAND TO WHITES --> Native families couldn't keep up land, pay taxes, so they sell the Dawes land to whites
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1 ene 1887 año
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