1 gen 1887 anni - Dawes Severalty Act

Descrizione:

The 1887 law that gave Native Americans severalty(division of tribal land) (individual ownership of land) by dividing reservations into homesteads. The law was a disaster for Native peoples, resulting over several decades in the loss of 66 percent of lands held by Indians at the time of the law’s passage.

-Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts, a leader in the Indian Rights Association, saw the reservation system as an ugly relic of the past that prevented assimilation and a personal sense of independence and economic gains.

result: white ppl bought "excess" land after Bureau of Indian Affairs implemented the law carelessly. This made Dawes mad.


* In Indian Territory, a commission seized more than 15 million “surplus” acres from Native tribes by 1894, opening the way for whites to create the state of Oklahoma out of the last federal territory set aside for Native peoples. In addition to catastrophic losses of collectively held property, Native peoples lost 66 percent of their individually allotted lands between the 1880s and the 1930s, through fraud, BIA mismanagement, and pressure to sell to whites.*

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