Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Muscogee (Creek) Nation curator John Beaver discussed the 1887 Dawes Act which changed how Indians in Oklahoma owned land. He also talked about the ...
When Congress passed legislation in 1887 that allotted individual American Indians pieces of land while also granting them citizenship, proponents of the Dawes Act argued it would give them greater ...
Spatial control, allotment in severalty, and the 1887 Dawes Act -- Nez Perce culture, geography, and history -- The Dawes Act on the Nez Perce Reservation -- The search for a Jicarilla homeland -- ...