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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.
The Dawes Act was passed in 1887 and it tried to dissolve Indian tribes by redistributing the land. It was designed to forestall growing Indian poverty, but it resulted in many Indians losing their land to speculators.
The Dawes Act eliminates the lack of private property and the nomadic tradition
The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was the division of Native American land that was then given to individual Native Americans. The Act remained in effect until it was amended by the Burke Act in 1906.