feb 8, 1887 - Dawes Act
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Also known as Dawns General Allotment Act and Dawns Severalty Act was a law providing for the distribution of land for individual Indians in reservations, with the goal of creating farmers in the white man's image. It was sponsored in several sessions of Congress by Sen. Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts.
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