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What aspect of native American life was the Dawes act designed to change?
The Dawes Act eliminates the lack of private property and the nomadic tradition
Why did the Dawes Act fail?
The Dawes Act fulfilled a desire of the U.S. government to suppress the Indian way of life & force assimilation to white culture.
What was the cause of the dawes act?
The United States congress admitted that the Dawes Act was intended to extinguish native Americans tribal unity, governments and cultures.
How did the Indian new reverse the conditions that resulted from the Dawes act?
John Collier helped get laws passed that restored tribal control over American Indian land.
Why is The Dawes Act so important?
There is a Dawes Act and a Dawes Plan.The Dawes Act was passed on 8 February 1887 and provided for the distribution of land in Oklahoma to the Native Americans living there. It was named after Senator Henry L. Dawes of Massachusetts. The act was an attempt to destroy the unity of the tribe and make each Native American head of household more like the White citizen/farmers.The Dawes Plan, 1924 (named after Charles D. Dawes, Vice President, banker, and politician), provided for short term economic relief to Germany and the reparation payments they were forced to make to the Allies as part of the Treaty of Versailles. It did soften the burden of reparation payments but it made the German economy dependent on foreign markets and foreign economies and would cause Germany to suffer severely from the Great Depression. The plan was replaced in 1929 with the Young Plan.
