One of the characteristics of American culture is an obsession with private property. The idea of holding land in common, as was the practice of Indian nations, was seen as uncivilized, un-Christian, ...

Introduction: what's done to the people is done to the land / Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O'Brien -- $85 an acre / Leanne Betasamosake Simpson -- Part I: Family narrations of privatization.

(U. S. Statutes at Large, Vol. XXIV, p. 388 ff.) [Congressman Henry Dawes, author of the act, once expressed his faith in the civilizing power of private property with the claim that to be civilized ...

The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie is one of many promises that established the Great Sioux Reservation. This includes the entire Black Hills and much of the surrounding area. The federal government ...

Under the Dawes Act, plots of lands allotted from tribal land to individual American Indians were supposed to be held for 25 years before they could be sold. But various shenanigans were developed to ...

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