Land
More productive land is important for indigenous livelihood as they thrive off of their land.
The Dawes Act's main objective was
to allot plots of reservation land
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The reading suggests that Indigenous people are poor because they were pushed onto reservations with adequate resources but did not know how to operate efficiently on new lands.
False.
The reading suggests that Indigenous people are poor because they are pushed onto reservations with poor resources.
The General Allotment Act was also referred to as
The Dawes Act
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The ____ nature of the Dawes Act
Colonial
- seeking to make Indians into farmers, and assimilate them into Non-Indian society.
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The allotment process required that reservation lands be held in trust by the ________.
Federal Government.
an increasing number of heirs.
Fractionation is when something is divided. When land is continuously divided, the shares get smaller and smaller.
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The Dawes Act was seeking to make land available for ____.
whites
This supports the reading's claims of the Dawes act being colonial by nature.
The position of the 1906 Burke Act was to
Allot millions of acres of land to Native Americans