First acreages were simply whittled away; then came "allotment," in which tracts were allotted to individual tribal members, and many ended up sold off to non-Indians.
Today, there are 100,000 people waiting to get an allotment in Britain.
My Peckham plot is not the leafy idyll of The Observer allotment in Hampstead.
Airtel, for example, was supposed to receive an additional allotment in Delhi once it passed 1.6m subscribers.
Rollins is hardly the only fan enthusiastic about the Golden Flashes, who have sold their 700-ticket allotment in Omaha.
It was quaint, out of date, something like a vegetable allotment in the age of the supermarket.
"When those cars were eligible for California's H.O.V. lanes, we sold out our allotment in no time," Mr. Butto said.
Recipients who went to work were generally allowed to keep their full welfare allotment in addition to their earnings.
Russia in turn accused Georgia of exceeding its troop allotment in the region under a 1992 peacekeeping agreement.
Corbyn was as interested in tending to his allotment in Islington as he was in leading the Labour party.
William Mehojah was born in 1917, and grew up in a frame house on a land allotment in Washunga, Okla.
