The primary purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act was to promote Indian assimilation. The act was created by a Senator from Massachusetts named Henry Laurens Dawes.
The Dawes Act impacted on self-governance, unity and culture of Native American tribes.
National Industrial Recovery Act
National Industrial Recovery Act
This act lessend traditional influences of Indian society by making land ownership private rather than shared. This act promised, but failed to deliver U.S citizenship to Natve Americans. The act took about two thirds of Indian land.
Indians in the great plains...savages...hated Indians
cause the indians didntlike it
They were now treated as individuals
The Dawes Act was created in Massachusetts. The Dawes Act, adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide the land into allotments for individual Indians. The Act was named for its sponsor, Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts. The Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act. The stated objective of the Dawes Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society. Individual ownership of land was seen as an essential step. The act also provided that the government would purchase Indian land excess to that needed for allotment and open it up for settlement by non-Indians.
The homestead act allow applicant to not hold land of up to 160 acres while the Dawes act was away for some Indians to be US citizens.
Lost their traditional cultural practices
Lost their traditional cultural practices
They were now treated as individuals
They were now treated as individuals
Lost their traditional cultural practices
to assimilate Indians into white culture
The Dawes Act was supposed to assimilate the Native Americans into the white culture by breaking up their reservations and giving them individual tracts of land.