Dawes severalty act Attempts to transform Indians into farmers

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Dawes severalty act- 1887 Attempts to transform Indians into farmers Ends reservation policy- marks shift in Indian policy Provisions Dissolves many tribes as legal entities Wiped out tribal joint ownership of land Individual family heads given 160 acres of land Full title ownership given in 25 years if behaved Leftover reservation land sold, money used to educate and “civilize’ Indians Missionaries and teachers sent to reservations to Christianize and teach women to sew and keep house

“Kill the Savage, Save the Man” Indian schools Apache children at their arrival at the Carlisle Indian School (PA) The same children 4 months later

Failure of the dawes act Why do you think the Dawes Act Failed? Few natives had the training or enthusiasm to farm Many sold land to white settlers, further reducing the size of the reservations By 1900, Indians had lost half of the land they had held 20 years earlier Dawes act remained basic framework for Native relations until 1934 Later changed to Indian Reorganization Act- tried to restore native culture