Thursday, December 22, 2016

LAD #25: Dawes Severalty Act















Although the situations were very different with the reasoning behind the two, the forceful moving to a confined area of the Japanese internment camps is similar to the Indian reservations.






Dawes Severalty Act Summary: This act was established in regards to Indian policy, more specifically, how reservations would be divided. This policy focused on on breaking up reservations by granting land allotments to individualize Native Americans. The head of each family was given 1/4 of the land, single children over the age of 18 1/8, to each orphan child under 18 they would get 1/8 of a section, as well as every other single person under 18. Lands that were not given to the Indians were open to non-Indians and the development of railroads. Even if the Native Americans did not live on that land they were given as a patent for the government to protect it. The act emphasized individual ownership of land, which contrasted with the traditional unity of the culture. The act ultimately tried for assimilation and deprived the Indians of their land for the need of railroads and the development of infrastructure.



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