FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS
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turn Native Americans into farmers.
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rebuild the Native American nations.
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restore the tribal ownership of land.
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encourage the Native American population to increase.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The goals of the Dawes Act of 1887 included breaking of the tribes as a social unit, encouraging individual initiatives, furthering the progress of native Farmers, securing the reservation land as the native land and opening the remainder of the land for the white sellers to profit.
Detailed explanation-2: -The purpose of the Dawes Act, and the subsequent acts that extended its initial provisions, was purportedly to protect American Indian property rights, particularly during the land rushes of the 1890s.
Detailed explanation-3: -An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes.
Detailed explanation-4: -The primary objective of the Dawes Act was to–promote cultural assimilation of Native Americans.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Dawes Act outlawed tribal ownership of land and forced 160-acre homesteads into the hands of individual Indians and their families with the promise of future citizenship. The goal was to assimilate Native Americans into white culture as quickly as possible.