Sentence examples for general allotment from inspiring English sources

The shocking conditions under the regimen established by the Dawes General Allotment Act (1887), as detailed in the Meriam report of 1928, spurred demands for reform.

We also noted that nearly 90 million acres of non-Indian fee land had been acquired as part of the Indian General Allotment Act, 24 Stat.

The tour aroused sympathy in influential circles, led by such individuals as Edward Everett Hale, Alice Fletcher, Wendell Phillips, and Mary L. Bonney, and eventuated in the passage of the Dawes General Allotment Act in 1887.

Dawes General Allotment Act, also called Dawes Severalty Act, (Feb. 8, 1887), U.S. law providing for the distribution of Indian reservation land among individual tribesmen, with the aim of creating responsible farmers in the white man's image.

The reservation land was later dispersed by means of the Dawes General Allotment Act (1887), whereby parcels of land were distributed to individuals (and could be bought by non-Indians).

Both Canada's Indian Act of 1876 and the American General Allotment Act of 1887 developed as a long process of shifting from the agreed treaties of previous centuries to the formal colonialism of the 19th century.

However, few studies have systematically investigated the health benefits of gardens in general, and allotment gardens in particular.

Thus, in general, older allotment gardeners appeared to be more oriented towards gardening and being active, and less towards passive relaxation than younger gardeners.

Biographer Harry M. Ward noted that Harrison's commission was unconstitutional both because he was not a citizen of the state and because the state militia's allotment of major generals had already been filled.

Thus, the survey may actually overestimate health benefits of allotment gardening in the general population of allotment gardeners.

For convenience, the members of the control group will be referred to as "neighbors" throughout this article, although it should be kept in mind that they were only neighbors to allotment gardeners in a general sense, they were not neighbors in the strict sense of living next door to the specific allotment gardeners in the present sample.