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Native American Documents Project

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This scholarly project from California State University analyzes the effect of the Dawes Act, or General Allotment Act, which divided Indian lands into individual holdings to promote assimilation by deliberately destroying tribal relations. Contains links on the left-hand side of the page.

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1891 amendment, 1910 omnibus act, allotment, allotment and homesteading, homesteading, burke act, dawes act, federal indian policy, general allotment act, indian land allotment, native american documents project, native american assimilation, dawes act (1887)
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)