The text of the famous Dawes Act of 1887 which attempted to provide allotment of lands to Native Americans.

Offers the text of the Dawes Act of 1887 which attempted to allot land to Native Americans to aid in their assimilation.

The 1887 law intended to assimilate Native Americans led to the loss of millions of acres of land.

On June 2, 1924, Native Americans were granted American citizenship via Indian Citizenship Act. Learn about this act of congress and how it impacted American Indian culture.

Explore how the Dawes Act of 1887 attempted to encourage Native Americans into a life of agriculture and to provide Indian schools which would emphasize agricultural and technical skills.

This scholarly project from California State University analyzes the effect of the Dawes Act, or General Allotment Act, which divided Indian lands into individual holdings to promote assimilation by deliberately destroying tribal...

Discusses the Indian reservation system, the impact it had on Native Americans, violent clashes between whites and Indians, and how it was destroyed by the Dawes Act of 1887 and resurrected in the 1930s. Includes questions for students...

In an attempt to redress wrongs towards Native Americans in the Dawes Act of 1887, John Collier, Roosevelt's Commissioner of Indian Affairs, collaborated with Native American elders in order to come up with new laws. Read about what was...

Find the report by John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the Secretary of the Interior, describing how he was trying to right many of the wrongs in the federal government's dealings with Native Americans as a result of the...

Contains selections from "With the Nez Perces: Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889-92" by E. Jane Gay, which provided an anthropological look at the Nez Perce Indians and their bewilderment at the Dawes Act.

Read about the probems caused by restricting Native Americans to reservations after their collective defeat by the end of the 19th century. See how the Dawes Act tried to address these problems, but only made things worse.

This in-depth resource presents a history of the American West from pre-Columbian times until World War I with profiles, documents, and images. It encourages visitors to link these into patterns of historical meaning for themselves....

Our Documents is home to one hundred milestone documents that influenced that course of American history and American democracy. Includes full-page scans of each document, transcriptions, background information on their significance, and...

After invading the land long lived on by the Native Americans, the United States government only gave them the right to citizenship in 1924 as detailed here.

Find out about how Native Americans fared during the passage of so much legislation during the New Deal. See which progams helped them, and read about the changes made in decades-old laws.

In this activity, students will analyze primary sources to determine the role and activities the federal government undertook in an attempt to 'Americanize' or assimilate Native Americans.

Read about the domestic policies and events that occured in Grover Cleveland's first term of office. Many of these were events on which he would run as he sought his second term.

This Khan Academy resource provides a table of contents with notes for several sections of AP US History: Period 6: 1865-1898.

Overview of the plight of Native Americans and government policy after Reconstruction in an era of expanding settlement in U.S.

An 1885 map showing the holdings of the many Indian tribes displaced to the Indian Territory. From the National Archives.

Read a good account of the domestic policies of Grover Cleveland's first administration. His ineffective leadership and attitudes towards race, women's rights, and immigration is somewhat surprising.

Provides an overview of the traditional culture and lifestyle of Ojibwa. (Note: Content is not the most current.)

Learn about the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, which granted citizenship rights to Native Americans and about the limits of the law in overturning centuries of discrimination.

Andrew Boxer traces the origins of a historical issue still as controversial and relevant today as in past centuries. At the start of the twentieth century there were approximately 250,000 Native Americans in the USA - just 0.3 per cent...