intended to americanize native Americans by distributing reservation land to individual owners..
white settlers
The Dawes Act was supposed to assimilate the Native Americans into the white culture by breaking up their reservations and giving them individual tracts of land.
What was a major goal of he Dawes act 1887
Dawes Act
The East India Company
President Grover Cleavland passed the Dawes Act in 1887
The primary purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act was to promote Indian assimilation. The act was created by a Senator from Massachusetts named Henry Laurens Dawes.
No
the dawes act
The Dawes Act impacted on self-governance, unity and culture of Native American tribes.
Dawes Act
The Dawes Act eliminates the lack of private property and the nomadic tradition