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Author : Wilcomb E. Washburn
Release : 1975
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis The Assault on Indian Tribalism by : Wilcomb E. Washburn
Download or read book The Assault on Indian Tribalism written by Wilcomb E. Washburn. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wilcomb E. Washburn
Release : 1975
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis The Assault on Indian Tribalism by : Wilcomb E. Washburn
Download or read book The Assault on Indian Tribalism written by Wilcomb E. Washburn. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The General Allotment Act, also known as the Dawes Severalty Act, became law in 1887. It was the culmination of a decade of intense concern on the part of an increasingly dominant white majority over the future status of the increasingly helpless Indian minority within the United States. The act did not simply rearrange the landholding system of the Indians. It dealt, sometimes only in a tentative or partial way, with all aspects of the relationship between white men and red: it determined how much land the red man would retain and how much the white man would acquire; it determined whether past treaties would be honored or violated; it determined how much authority the tribe would retain and how much the Indian individual would acquire; it determined what type of law the Indian would be subjected to; and it determined whether or not he would become an American citizen or remain an alien in his own country. The act did not determine all these questions fully and finally; but it did confront them directly, even if it answered them only partially. This volume treats the various-alternatives faced by legislators on the road to the compromise legislation that finally emerged.
Author : D. S. Otis
Release : 2014-04-03
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Dawes Act and the Allotment of Indian Lands by : D. S. Otis
Download or read book The Dawes Act and the Allotment of Indian Lands written by D. S. Otis. This book was released on 2014-04-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The many congressional acts and plans for the administration of Indian affairs in the West often resulted in confusion and misapplication. Only rarely were the ideals of those who sincerely wished to help American Indians realized. This book, first printed as a part of the hearings before the House of Representatives Committee on Indian Affairs in 1934, is a detailed and fully documented account of the Dawes Act of 1887 and its consequences up to 1900. D. S. Otis's investigation of the motives of the reformers who supported the Dawes Act indicates that it failed to fulfill many of the hopes of its sponsors. The reasons for the act's failure were complex but predictable. Many Indians were not culturally prepared for severalty. Provisions in the act for leasing or selling their land enabled many to circumvent the responsibilities of private ownership, which reformers and bureaucrats alike had thought would provide a “civilizing” influence. The Dawes Act and the Allotment of Indian Land is the only full-scale study of the Dawes Act and its impact upon American Indian society and culture. With the addition of an introduction, revised footnotes, and an index by Francis Paul Prucha, S. J., it is essential to any understanding of the present circumstances and problems of American Indians today.
Author : Wilcomb E. Washburn
Release : 1995
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Red Man's Land/white Man's Law by : Wilcomb E. Washburn
Download or read book Red Man's Land/white Man's Law written by Wilcomb E. Washburn. This book was released on 1995. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Man's Land/White Man's Law is a history of the legal status of the American Indians and their land from the period of first contact with Europeans down to the present day. It begins with the efforts of colonial authorities-Spanish, British, and French-to deal with tribal sovereignty and carries the discussion of U. S. -Indian legal relations through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Tribal sovereignty was eroded from the very beginning, but more recently it has emerged as a powerful force in American and Canadian law and touches upon many current legal issues, such as land allotment and land claims; definitions of Indian status; hunting, fishing, and water rights; and tribal relations with Congress, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Canadian government. First published in 1971, this second edition contains a new preface and an extensive afterword discussing important legal events and issues in the last twenty-five years, making this a complete, up-to-date survey of legal relations between the United States and the American Indian.
Author : James Stuart Olson
Release : 1984
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Native Americans in the Twentieth Century by : James Stuart Olson
Download or read book Native Americans in the Twentieth Century written by James Stuart Olson. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
