5. The allotment policy 1887-1934

Question 1

when do American politicians realise unrest was due to reservation policy

Answer 1

Defeat of Custer 1876

Question 2

Growing recognition that

Answer 2

reservation policy had failed to bring about assimilation =

change in way Government sought to bring assimilation about

Question 3

Dawes Act 1887

what?

Answer 3

reservation lands divided into homesteads or allotments.

Question 4

Dawes Act 1887

supporters hoped

Answer 4

supporters hope it would improve conditions for NA

Question 5

Dawes Act 1887

the reality

Answer 5

did nothing to help their civil rights

continued to ignore tribal nature of NA life and continued policy of trying to destroy it.

Question 6

1. how could it be argued Act improved rights of NA thus representing a change
2. argument against this

Answer 6

1.NA given land and after 25 years could own it and would have full citizenship and rights
2. not what NA wanted
even if they had wanted rights, would mean little in practice as subject to discrimination.
continued determination of government to assimilate people
government either did not understand wishes of NA or did not want to understand them