Dawes Act
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US legislative act regulating Native American tribal lands
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Act of Congress in the United States
- Named after
- Henry Laurens Dawes
- Country
- United States
- Main subject
- Indian reservation of the United States
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- legislated by
- 49th United States Congress
- applies to jurisdiction
- United States
- signatory
- Grover Cleveland
- point in time
- 1887-00-00
- different from
- Dawes Plan
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