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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.

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a main feature of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was that sections of tribal reservations were given to Native Americans as private homesteads.

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it acknowledged the failure of the reservations

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it led to the sale of the majority of native americans land to whites

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