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The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887) regulated land rights on tribal territories within...

to break decisively with the past and to create the conditions for a new era in which the Indian future is determined by Indian acts and Indian decisions...

of the Caddo, Wichita, and Delaware Nation, prior to allotment in the post-Dawes Allotment Era. Culturally, Anadarko is rare among Oklahoma cities as...

individual land owners. This period of allotment over tribal lands became known as the "allotment and assimilation era", mainly because the main goal of allotting...

programs in the region". The Tribe has reacquired land lost during the allotment era, and "the Tribe and Tribal members now own more than half of the land...

to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction era and the Progressive Era. It was named by 1920s historians after Mark Twain's 1873 novel...

Sundown showcases a shift into modernity. Sundown takes place during the Allotment Era following the Dawes Act of 1887. The purpose of the Act was to assimilate...

U.S. Era, which was followed the Removal Era. The next period was the Allotment Era. The Reorganization Era was next and then the Termination Era. The...

168. In the 1880s, the "Allotment Era" swept the Western United States. The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty...

million acres was reduced to approximately 3000 acres by the end of the allotment era. Following the loss in court, Lone Wolf returned to the KCA reservation...

Pinoleville Drive, Ukiah, CA, 30 Sept. 2014. "Making Indian Land in the Allotment Era:: Northern California's Indian Rancherias". The Western Historical Quarterly...

of Refuge under their administration. In addition, there was no land allotment for the Tribe of Joseph, but Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh,...

Suquamish Tribe government the ability to reacquire land lost during the allotment era, and "the Tribe and Tribal members now own more than half of the land...

Oklahoma before signing an allotment act. They were forced to accept allotment but retained their "surplus" land after allotment to households, and apportioned...

1887 (the year the Dawes Act came into effect) and 1934 (known as the "Allotment era") the government took over 90 million acres (360,000 km2) of tribal...

listed as Freedmen on the Dawes Rolls, by which they were entitled to land allotments under the Treaty of 1866 made by the United States with the Five Civilized...

grounds and is approached by a lime tree avenue across the enclosure allotment, leading near to the east of the house. Although the avenue across the...

acquired the position of surveyor on multiple occasions during the Indian Allotment era, assisting Shawnees, Kickapoos, and Anglo-Americans in assessing the...

South Dakota. In 1887, the United States Congress passed the General Allotment Act, also called the Dawes Act, to break up communal tribal lands on reservations...

through an overhaul of the allotment system. Since the sixteenth century, the Swedish army had used the so-called allotment system (Swedish: indelningsverket;...