Apr. 7—Dr. Candessa Tehee, associate professor of Cherokee and Indigenous Studies and Cherokee Nation District 2 Tribal councilor, contributed to an edited volume about her family's allotment story, ...

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 ...

To the editor: The Native veterans who missed the application date for the Native Allotments are going to be disrespected by the Dingell Act process. I wouldn’t want to be the one who tells the ...

U.S. President Grover Cleveland appointed H.L. Dawes as head of the commission that Congress created in 1893 under the Dawes Act, which ultimately provided for the allotment of lands to the Five ...

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 -- ...

He made Sitting Bull stand. Henry Dawes was described by many as a "tireless friend of the Indian." That meant little to the great Indian chief Sitting Bull, who during a meeting with then-Sen. Dawes ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Eight surviving American Indians who were among the original signers of the Dawes Roll were honored Monday at the Capitol by state and tribal leaders. The group received gifts and ...

Introduction: what's done to the people is done to the land / Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien -- $85 an acre / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- Part I: Family narrations of privatization.

Their land atop one of the largest oil fields in North America once made Osage tribal citizens among the richest people in the world. And among the most murdered. In a deadly Oklahoma land grab, as ...