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  2. Dawes Act - Wikipedia

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    The Dawes Act ended Native American communal holding of property (with cropland often being privately owned by families or clans [36]), by which they had ensured that everyone had a home and a place in the tribe. The act "was the culmination of American attempts to destroy tribes and their governments and to open Indian lands to settlement by ...

  3. Dawes Plan - Wikipedia

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    The Dawes Plan temporarily resolved the issue of the reparations that Germany owed to the Allies of World War I.Enacted in 1924, it ended the crisis in European diplomacy that occurred after French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr in response to Germany's failure to meet its reparations obligations.

  4. Tribal sovereignty in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Appropriations Act of 1871 had two significant sections. First, the Act ended United States recognition of additional Native American tribes or independent nations and prohibited additional treaties. Thus, it required the federal government no longer interact with the various tribes through treaties, but rather through statutes:

  5. Indian country jurisdiction - Wikipedia

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    The Meriam Report documented the utter failure of the Dawes Act and the allotment policy. The passage of the Indian Reorganization Act in 1934 officially marks the beginning of the Reorganization period. The Indian Reorganization Act ended the practice of allotment.

  6. During Women's History Month, note these Topekans who ... - AOL

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    Congress passed the Dawes Act in 1887, which broke up and divided native land, according to the national archives. Congress then in 1953 attempted to terminate Potawatomie and other tribes.

  7. Cherokee freedmen controversy - Wikipedia

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    As a part of the act and subsequent bills, the Dawes Commission was formed in 1893 and took a census of the citizens in Indian Territory from 1898 to 1906. The Dawes Rolls , officially known as The Final Rolls of the Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory , listed individuals under the categories of Indians by ...

  8. Curtis Act of 1898 - Wikipedia

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    The Curtis Act also scrapped the registration of tribal members that had been conducted under the Dawes Act and ordered new enrollments. [11] This Act extended all provisions of the Dawes Act to the lands of the Five Civilized Tribes. In the end, the large parts declared by the government to be "surplus" to their needs were made available for ...

  9. Abusive man cleared of partner's manslaughter - AOL

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    Ms Dawes' sister wept and her mother looked straight ahead as Wellings was cleared of manslaughter. Wellings, who will be sentenced on 16 January, smiled and blew a kiss to his current girlfriend ...