Amendments to the Dawes Act
At first, the Dawes Act didn’t matter to the supposed “Five civilized Clans” (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, River, and Seminole). They had proactively embraced numerous components of American culture and culture, which is the reason they were described as “acculturated.” Additionally, they were safeguarded by arrangements that had ensured that their ancestral grounds would stay liberated from white pilgrims. Nonetheless, after they had demonstrated reluctant to deliberately acknowledge individual portions of land, the Curtis Demonstration of 1898 altered the Dawes Act to apply to the Five Edified Clans too. Their ancestral legislatures were demolished, their ancestral courts were obliterated, and north of ninety million sections of land of their ancestral terrains were auctions off to white Americans.
During the Economic crisis of the early 20s, the organization of President Franklin D. Roosevelt upheld the US Indian Redesign Act, which approved “Another Arrangement” for local native Americans, permitting them to sort out and shape their own ancestral legislatures, and finishing the land portions made by Dawes Act.
The Dawes Act (1887)
The Dawes Act was an important piece of legislation in American history. It was often called the General Allotment Act, which attempted to integrate Native American tribes into the country’s mainstream civilization. With the intention of encouraging private land ownership and agricultural methods, Senator Henry L. Dawes introduced a bill that attempted to divide up tribal property ownership and give individual pieces to Native American households. Its execution, however, was a sad chapter in the history of federal Indian policy and resulted in the eviction of millions of acres of Native American land, as well as long-lasting negative impacts on indigenous populations.
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Table of Content
- The Dawes Act – Overview:
- Dawes General Allotment Act:
- Background to the “Indian problem”:
- Provisions and effects of the Dawes Act:
- Amendments to the Dawes Act:
- Criticism: