Dawes Act
The Dawes Act was an act that split up and distributed land to the Indians. It first gave land to the head of all the house holds and then to different ages and orhpans etc. Except with each step lower, the amount of land went down too. This land distribution was suppose to help the Indian economy prosper. Yet if a group of Indians came to another tribes land since they did not have an alloted amount, then they would be given the same privliages and recources to become American citizens to get their jobs paid by the federal government. Even with all this effort to help the Indians, in the end it did not. In ruined the unity, culture, and self government that the Indians possessed. And over time, most of the land belonged to whites anyways because the land was used as negotiations.
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