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Indian Land Rights
Tribal Affiliations The injustices that happened long ago are still not fixed and need to be, because they are visible everyday through the hardships these people face. Introduction Ever since Europeans discovered America Native Americans began losing their land progressively for the next couple of hundred years following the settlement of the first Europeans. What was once a country that was dominated by the inhabitance of Native Americans, the United States is no longer the home it once was. Native Americans during the past centuries have lost an enormous amount of land and their rights to their property and not only till recently have repercussions been taken. Native Americans are now fighting for their land that they lost long ago in addition to water rights that many tribes need. In this paper we’ll look at the some of the major acts that have affected Indians and also the problems that some tribes face and how some tribes are dealing with their land rights. The General Allotment Act American Indians had considerably lost much of their land during the 17th and 18th centuries but not till the 19th century were their any real big acts of congress that made the taking of Indian land legal. Indians before the 19th century had been living on reservations but not till the mid to later 1800’s was the government at the height of its power to allocate Indian land to white settlers and place more Indians on reservations. One of the most influential acts of Congress that rid Indians of their land is The General Allotment Act also known as the Dawes Act. The Dawes Act did not affect Pueblo Indian tribes as it did other tribes. (Andersen 1992:112-115) The Dawes Act was signed into law on February 8, 1887 and contained five basic provisions. (1) Indian reservations would be divided and each tribal member would receive a grant of land consisting of 160 acres for each family head, a grant of 80 acres for each sing... Please login to view comments from other users.
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