• The American Dawes Commission, named for its first chairman Henry L. Dawes, was authorized under a rider to an Indian Office appropriation bill, March...
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  • The Dawes Rolls (or Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes, or Dawes Commission of Final Rolls) were created by the United States...
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    Although there was intermarriage between Blacks and Indians, the Dawes Commission enrolled people of mixed heritage as Freedmen, and indicated no blood...
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    The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887) regulated land rights on tribal territories within...
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  • Tams Bixby (1855-1922) was best known for his work on the Dawes Commission, which was formed to formally enroll members of the Native American tribes that...
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    appointed Dawes as the first director of the Bureau of the Budget. Dawes served on the Allied Reparations Commission, where he helped formulate the Dawes Plan...
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  • Indian Territory. They wanted to be included in registration for the Dawes Commission Final Rolls as citizens by blood of the Choctaw Nation and recognized...
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  • 1893, the United States Dawes Commission under the direction of Henry L. Dawes was established by an act of Congress. The Dawes Act was part of a continuing...
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    Lake, was purportedly named after his daughter, Anna Dawes. In late 1871 and early 1872, Dawes became an ardent supporter of a bill to create Yellowstone...
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    Breckinridge of illegal actions and he left the commission in 1905. After resigning from the Dawes Commission, Breckinridge founded the Arkansas Valley Trust...
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  • Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole. Authorized by the Dawes Commission, the applications were disputed by the Five Tribes as fraudulent and...
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    The Dawes Plan was superseded by the Young Plan in 1929. Because the Plan resolved a serious international crisis, the American Charles G. Dawes, who...
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  • on Cherokee Rolls that were not the Dawes, so would thus still not be recognized. Basing citizenship off the Dawes Rolls and other rolls is what scholar...
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  • Look up dawes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Dawes may refer to: Dawes (Parish), New South Wales Dawes Point, New South Wales Dawes Arboretum, in...
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    years in Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. From 1890 to 1895, the Dawes Commission considered the Yuchi in Indian Territory to be an autonomous tribe...
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  • contemporary reliance on the Dawes Rolls as a racially based way to exclude them from citizenship. Before the Dawes Commission was established, (t)he majority...
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    the Dawes Severalty Act (General Allotment Act), which began the forced transfer of Indian tribal lands to individual ownership. The Dawes Commission brought...
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  • such hopes. Henry L. Dawes wanted to increase the cultural assimilation of Native Americans into American society by his Dawes Act (1887) and his later...
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    from Cherokees listed on the Dawes Rolls and has no minimum blood quantum requirement. Currently, descendants of the Dawes Cherokee Freedman rolls are...
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    Tribes (Indian Territory) were exempt from the original Dawes Act legislation, and the Dawes Commission was to convince the Five Civilized Tribes to agree...
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    in 2000. The town was named for Frank C. Armstrong, a member of the Dawes Commission. The town of Armstrong began along the route of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas...
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    Cherokee Nation since 1866, and their ancestors were recorded on the Dawes Commission Land Rolls (although generally in the category of Cherokee Freedmen...
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  • the 1890s as an opposition movement to the allotment policies of the Dawes Commission and various US Congressional acts of the period. The society is religious...
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    Bixby, a chairman of the Dawes Commission. The original 80-acre (32 ha) townsite plat was approved by the Dawes Commission in 1902. Many settlers were...
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    much of their former lands. In the hasty process of registration, the Dawes Commission registered tribal members in three categories: they distinguished among...
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    battle with the Cherokee Nation over land rights during the era of the Dawes Commission. In 2002, Music of the United States of America describes Adams as...
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    a Choctaw who had already received his allotment of land from the Dawes Commission, built a log cabin, put in a store, and established a post office....
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    1889, a federal district court was created in Muscogee. In 1894, the Dawes Commission also established its headquarters there. According to the U.S. Census...
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    not hold U.S. nor Chickasaw citizenship until the 1890s, due to the Dawes Commission. A DNA test taken by the show revealed that Cheadle is of Cameroonian...
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    Curtis Act of 1898 (category Dawes Rolls)
    state in 1907, residents could also vote for state officials. Dawes Act Dawes Commission Dawes Rolls Atoka Agreement Aboriginal title in the United States...
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