Dawes Act
Summary: The 1889 Dawes Severalty Act essentially served as a means of assimilating natives into the white American culture. It gave the President the authority to survey Tribal Lands and divide them up into private allotments for Individual indian owners. If these owners would leave the tribe and live in the white fashion, they would be given the land, and full citizenship. Again, this really just served as an attempt by the Federals to deal with the "Indian Problem" via assimilation.
(To this day, conflicts between Indians and the Government over land usage and ownership exist, as can be seen in the recent Dakota Access Pipeline debacle).
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