Question

Explain the dawez act in 10 points ?

Answer 1

Dawes Act:-

1. Dawes Act of 1887.
2. It is also known as General Allotment act.
3. It was Effective on 8 February 1887.
4. It was enacted by the 49th United States Congress.
5. This act is provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservation.
6. Introduced in the Senate by Henry L. Dawes(R–MA).
7. It was signed into the Law by President Grover Cleveland on February 8, 1887.
8. The Dawes Act was amended again in 1906 under the Burke Act.
9. The loss of land and the break-up of traditional leadership of tribes produced negative cultural & social effects.
10. Before private property could be dispensed, the government had to determine "which Indians were eligible" for allotments.

Effects:-

The effects of the Dawes Act were destructive on Native American sovereignty, culture, and identity since it empowered the U.S. government to:

• legally preempt the sovereign right of Indians to define themselves.
• implement the specious notion of blood-quantum as the legal criteria for defining Indians.
• institutionalize divisions between "full-bloods" and "mixed-bloods".
• "detribalize" a sizeable segment of the Indian population.
• legally appropriate vast tracts of Indian land.

Answer 2

Answer:

Dawes of Massachusetts) authorized the President of the United States to subdivide Native American tribal communal landholdings into allotments for Native American heads of families and individuals. ... The act would declare remaining lands after allotment as "surplus" and available for sale, including to non-Natives.