Indigenous Land Quality and Rights

Land

100

Does the author of the reading claim that there is a direct relationship between land quality and income?

Yes, they do. 

More productive land is important for indigenous livelihood as they thrive off of their land.  

200

The General Allotment Act was also referred to as

The Dawes Act

300

The land shares were getting progressive smaller due to...

an increasing number of heirs. 

Fractionation is when something is divided. When land is continuously divided, the shares get smaller and smaller.  

Dawes Act

100

The Dawes Act's main objective was

to allot plots of reservation land

200

Fill in the blank 

The ____ nature of the Dawes Act

Colonial 

- seeking to make Indians into farmers, and assimilate them into Non-Indian society. 

300

Fill in the blank

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. 

Mystery

100

True/False 

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. 

200

Fill in the blank

The allotment process required that reservation lands be held in trust by the ________.

Federal Government. 

300

The position of the 1906 Burke Act was to

Allot millions of acres of land to Native Americans