Indian Land Rights

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Term Paper Title	Indian Land Rights
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Indian land rights

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Social Issues

[Paper Title]:

Indian land rights

[Text]:

Tribal Affiliations

The injustices that happened long ago are still not fixed and need to be,
because they are visible everyday through the hardships these people face.

Introduction

Ever since Europeans discovered America Native Americans began losing their
land progressively for the next couple of hundred years following the settlement
of the first Europeans. What was once a country that was dominated by the
inhabitance of Native Americans, the United States is no longer the home it once
was. Native Americans during the past centuries have lost an enormous amount of
land and their rights to their property and not only till recently have
repercussions been taken. Native Americans are now fighting for their land that
they lost long ago in addition to water rights that many tribes need.

In this paper we’ll look at the some of the major acts that have affected
Indians and also the problems that some tribes face and how some tribes are
dealing with their land rights.

The General Allotment Act

American Indians had considerably lost much of their land during the 17th and
18th centuries but not till the 19th century were their any real big acts of
congress that made the taking of Indian land legal. Indians before the 19th
century had been living on reservations but not till the mid to later 1800’s
was the government at the height of its power to allocate Indian land to white
settlers and place more Indians on reservations. One of the most influential
acts of Congress that rid Indians of their land is The General Allotment Act
also known as the Dawes Act. The Dawes Act did not affect Pueblo Indian tribes
as it did other tribes. (Andersen 1992:112-115)

The Dawes Act was signed into law on February 8, 1887 and contained five
basic provisions. (1) Indian reservations would be divided and each tribal
member would receive a grant of land consisting of 160 acres for each family
head, a grant of 80 acres for each single person over eighteen, and 40 acres for
each juvenile; (2) Indians would receive fee simple title to their individual
holdings, but the land were to be held in trust by the government for
twenty-five years during which time they could not be alienated; (3) The Indians
would be given four years to make their selections, after which time the
government would make their selection for them; (4) United Stated citizenship
would be conferred upon any Indian who m...

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