Taking Indian Lands

Examines the Cherokee Commission of 1889 and the U.S. strategies to negotiate the purchase of Indian land thus opening it up to white settlers.

First sentence: IT IS OFTEN OBSERVED THAT FROM THE PASSAGE OF THE Dawes Severalty Act in 1887 to the reversal of that policy by the Wheeler-Howard Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the Native American land base shrank from roughly 138,000,000 acres to 52,000,000.

Year

2003

Language

English

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Editions

1

Pages

279

ISBN

9780806135137

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