Allotment of Lands to Certain Indian Tribes
Author | : United States. Congress. House |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Indian agents |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Indian agents |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 2 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Public lands |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kristin T. Ruppel |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2008-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0816544026 |
Unearthing Indian Land offers a comprehensive examination of the consequences of more than a century of questionable public policies. In this book, Kristin Ruppel considers the complicated issues surrounding American Indian land ownership in the United States. Under the General Allotment Act of 1887, also known as the Dawes Act,individual Indians were issued title to land allotments while so-called “surplus”Indian lands were opened to non-Indian settlement. During the forty-seven years that the act remained in effect, American Indians lost an estimated 90 million acres of land—about two-thirds of the land they had held in 1887. Worse, the loss of control over the land left to them has remained an ongoing and insidious result. Unearthing Indian Land traces the complex legacies of allotment, including numerous instructive examples of a policy gone wrong. Aside from the initial catastrophic land loss, the fractionated land ownership that resulted from the act’s provisions has disrupted native families and their descendants for more than a century. With each new generation, the owners of tribal lands grow in number and therefore own ever smaller interests in parcels of land. It is not uncommon now to find reservation allotments co-owned by hundreds of individuals.Coupled with the federal government’s troubled trusteeship of Indian assets,this means that Indian landowners have very little control over their own lands. Illuminated by interviews with Native American landholders, this book is essential reading for anyone who is interested in what happened as a result of the federal government’s quasi-privatization of native lands.
Author | : Felix S. Cohen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Helen Hunt Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Samuel Thomas Bledsoe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1024 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Forms (Law) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : D. S. Otis |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2014-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806146362 |
The many congressional acts and plans for the administration of Indian affairs in the West often resulted in confusion and misapplication. Only rarely were the ideals of those who sincerely wished to help American Indians realized. This book, first printed as a part of the hearings before the House of Representatives Committee on Indian Affairs in 1934, is a detailed and fully documented account of the Dawes Act of 1887 and its consequences up to 1900. D. S. Otis's investigation of the motives of the reformers who supported the Dawes Act indicates that it failed to fulfill many of the hopes of its sponsors. The reasons for the act's failure were complex but predictable. Many Indians were not culturally prepared for severalty. Provisions in the act for leasing or selling their land enabled many to circumvent the responsibilities of private ownership, which reformers and bureaucrats alike had thought would provide a “civilizing” influence. The Dawes Act and the Allotment of Indian Land is the only full-scale study of the Dawes Act and its impact upon American Indian society and culture. With the addition of an introduction, revised footnotes, and an index by Francis Paul Prucha, S. J., it is essential to any understanding of the present circumstances and problems of American Indians today.