3. Dawes Act (1887)
U.S. Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts
Legal effort to force Indians into the white American mold- ASSIMILATION
160 Acres of land to each Indian family
Dissolved tribal governments
Granted citizenship to native Americans if they “adopted the habits of civilized life”
Support of Indian schools
Represented the climax of the effort to force Indians into the white American mold.

4. Most Native Americans sunk into worse poverty than southern sharecroppers

5. Dawes Act – 1887
Assimilation

6. Native Americans during mathematics class at Indian School, Carlisle, Pennsylvania