Add to ORKGUnderstanding the significance of the General Allotment Act of 1887 (Dawes Act) is central to any rational analysis of the present condition of the American Indian population. McDonnell has, in The Dispossession of the American Indian, 1887-1934, given us an excellent primer on the reasoning for the establishment of the Dawes Act and how it has affected the lives of the peoples it was designed to help. Although more than 20 percent of this little book is devoted to notes and bibliography, it is a valuable contribution to American Indian literature and a timely addition to the quincentenary debate
The General Allotment Act of 1887 was constructed as a solution to the obstacles that hindered weste...
Review of: The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform. Mathes, Valerie Sherer and Lowit...
Review of: American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century. Deloria, Vine, Jr., ed
Understanding the significance of the General Allotment Act of 1887 (Dawes Act) is central to any ra...
Indian land is a topic of great interest. Land has traditionally been the most important issue in I...
Between the passage of the Dawes Act in 1887 and the Indian Reorganization Act in 1934, Indian landh...
The General Allotment Act, or Dawes Severalty Act, passed in 1887, had terrible repercussions for th...
In the centennial of the passage of the Northwest ordinance, 1887, the U.S. Congress passed the Dawe...
This slender volume lays out the story of the creation, evolution, and demise of the mid-nineteenth-...
Federal Indian policy has always been cyclical and often at opposite ends of a spectrum defined by t...
PREFACE Compilations of information such as bibliographies and legislative histories on major pieces...
The legacies of allotment on reservations—fractionated heirship and dispossession most notably—have ...
Review of: An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians. Wishart, David J
In this article, the Author undertakes a law and literature approach to a major Indian law problem: ...
In late summer 1847, the United States signed a treaty that formed a new Indian reservation in north...
The General Allotment Act of 1887 was constructed as a solution to the obstacles that hindered weste...
Review of: The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform. Mathes, Valerie Sherer and Lowit...
Review of: American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century. Deloria, Vine, Jr., ed
Understanding the significance of the General Allotment Act of 1887 (Dawes Act) is central to any ra...
Indian land is a topic of great interest. Land has traditionally been the most important issue in I...
Between the passage of the Dawes Act in 1887 and the Indian Reorganization Act in 1934, Indian landh...
The General Allotment Act, or Dawes Severalty Act, passed in 1887, had terrible repercussions for th...
In the centennial of the passage of the Northwest ordinance, 1887, the U.S. Congress passed the Dawe...
This slender volume lays out the story of the creation, evolution, and demise of the mid-nineteenth-...
Federal Indian policy has always been cyclical and often at opposite ends of a spectrum defined by t...
PREFACE Compilations of information such as bibliographies and legislative histories on major pieces...
The legacies of allotment on reservations—fractionated heirship and dispossession most notably—have ...
Review of: An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians. Wishart, David J
In this article, the Author undertakes a law and literature approach to a major Indian law problem: ...
In late summer 1847, the United States signed a treaty that formed a new Indian reservation in north...
The General Allotment Act of 1887 was constructed as a solution to the obstacles that hindered weste...
Review of: The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform. Mathes, Valerie Sherer and Lowit...
Review of: American Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century. Deloria, Vine, Jr., ed