1 авг 1883 г. - Dawes Severalty Act Feb. 8, 1887

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-broke up reservations and distributed some of the land to the head of each Native American family
-the allotment was 160 acres, just like the Homestead Act
-If they lived there for 25 years, they would get American citizenship
-humanitarian solution to the "Indian Problem"
-main goal was to assimilate the Native Americans faster by integrating them more closely with whites
-Native resisted, leading to them selling their land to speculator leaving them homeless

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