12 Facts About Dawes Act

The Dawes Act Commission was established in 1893 as a delegation to register members of tribes for allotment of lands.

On February 8,1887, the Dawes Allotment Act was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.

Dawes Act facilitated assimilation; they would become more "Euro-Americanized" as the government allotted the reservations and the Indians adapted to subsistence farming, the primary model at the time.

Burke Act of 1906 amended the sections of the Dawes Act dealing with US Citizenship and the mechanism for issuing allotments.

The Burke Dawes Act did not apply to any Native Americans in Indian Territory.

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Effects of the Dawes Act were destructive on Native American sovereignty, culture, and identity since it empowered the US government to:.

Dawes Act ended Native American communal holding of property, by which they had ensured that everyone had a home and a place in the tribe.

Dawes Act compelled Native Americans to adopt European American culture by illegalizing Indigenous cultural practices and forcibly indoctrinating settler cultural practices and ideologies into Native American families and children.

In particular, the Meriam Report found that the General Allotment Dawes Act had been used to illegally deprive Native Americans of their land rights.

However, the allotment process in Alaska, under the separate Alaska Native Allotment Dawes Act, continued until its revocation in 1971 by the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Dawes Act.

For example, one provision of the Dawes Act was the establishment of a trust fund, administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to collect and distribute revenues from oil, mineral, timber, and grazing leases on Native American lands.

Angie Debo's, And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes, claimed the allotment policy of the Dawes Act was systematically manipulated to deprive the Native Americans of their lands and resources.