Sentence examples for severalty from inspiring English sources

She was promised the return of her people to the Malheur reservation and a severalty allotment of land there, but the order issued to that effect was never executed.

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.