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Record Nr.

UNINA9911018875003321

Autore

McDonnell Janet A.

Titolo

The Dispossession of the American Indian, 1887-1934 / / Janet A. McDonnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington : , : Indiana University Press, , 1991

©1991

ISBN

0-253-07436-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource: : illustrations, map ;

Disciplina

333.2

Soggetti

Indian reservations

Indian termination policy

Indians of North America - Government relations

Electronic books.

United States Indigenous peoples

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-158) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Allotment: the land divided -- Allotment: policy implementation -- Putting the land to work: Indian farming and stockraising -- Leasing: a policy unfolds -- Leasing: problems and abuses -- Land and water: Federal irrigation projects on Indian Reservations -- Fee patents and competency commissions -- Declaration of policy -- Making amends: fee patients, 1921-1934.

Sommario/riassunto

An analysis of the formulation, implementation, and effects of the Federal Government's Indian land policy between the passage the Dawes Allotment Act of 1887 and the Wheeler-Howard Act of 1934 (Indian Reorganization Act).

History of the Dawes Act.