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    The Curtis Act of 1898 was an amendment to the United States Dawes Act; it resulted in the break-up of tribal governments and communal lands in Indian...
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    resembled whites", regardless of how they identified culturally. The Curtis Act of 1898 extended the provisions of the Dawes Act to the "Five Civilized Tribes"...
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    House of Representatives. There, he sponsored and helped pass the Curtis Act of 1898, which extended the Dawes Act to the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian...
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    Civilized Tribes. The Curtis Act of 1898 extended the provisions of the Dawes Act to the Five Tribes, in preparation for the admission of Oklahoma as a state...
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  • Dawes Commission (category Native American history of Oklahoma)
    allotment policy of the Dawes Commission and the Curtis Act of 1898 was systematically manipulated to deprive the Native Americans of their lands and resources...
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    citizens of the Five Civilized Tribes, the Osage, Miami, the Peoria, nor the Sac and Fox Nations of Indian Territory,: 20, 24  the Curtis Act of 1898 extended...
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    the 1887 General Allotment Act, the Curtis Act of 1898 allowed Congress to set a date (March 4, 1906) for the breakup of tribal governments and communal...
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    Curtis Act of 1898, the tribal government and its institutions were dismantled. The tribe was previously known as the Sac and Fox Tribe of Indians of...
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  • date of the Curtis Act of 1898 which will lead to the dissolution of tribal and communal lands in Indian Territory and ultimately the creation of the State...
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    Curtis Act of 1898 dissolved tribal governments and ordered the allotment of tribal lands to individual members of tribes. The Lenape fought the act in...
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  • States government passed the Curtis Act of 1898, which forced allotments, enrollment of tribal members, and dissolution of the Cherokee government, Quarles...
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    households by allotments. The tribe's government was dismantled by the Curtis Act of 1898, which encouraged assimilation by Native Americans to the majority...
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    Dawes Act and Curtis Act of 1898, the US government conducted registration of tribal members in order to make individual allotments of land to heads of families...
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    literate. The Curtis Act of 1898 expanded the powers of the federal government over Indian affairs. The author of the act was Charles Curtis, now a Congressman...
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    government counted the remainder of tribal land as "surplus" and sold it to non-Cherokee individuals. The Curtis Act of 1898 dismantled tribal governments...
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  • Act broke up the Cheyenne-Arapaho land base. All land not allotted to individual Indians was opened to settlement in the Land Run of 1892. The Curtis...
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  • Atoka Agreement (category History of Indian Territory)
    agreement were later incorporated into the Curtis Act of 1898, which provided for widespread allotment of communal tribal lands. The agreement also reserved...
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    the Curtis Act of 1898 dissolved tribal governments and ordered the allotment of communal tribal lands to individual households of members of tribes...
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    Thomas Buffington (category Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation (1794–1907))
    History of Thomas Mitchell Buffington, Twice Chief of the Cherokees" (PDF). Retrieved July 21, 2020. Tatro, M. Kaye. "Curtis Act (1898)". Encyclopedia of Oklahoma...
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    Act in 1887 and the Curtis Act of 1898. The acts abolished tribal governments, eliminated tribal ownership of land, and allotted 160 acres (65 ha) of...
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    agreements with each of the Five Civilized Tribes for the allotment of tribal lands to individual Indians. Finally, the Curtis Act of 1898 abolished tribal...
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    speculators took advantage of the Miami. Similarly, the Curtis Act of 1898 ended tribal government and the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs became an intermediary...
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  • immigrants to the United States. With the goal of assimilating the Native Americans, the Curtis Act of 1898, sponsored by a Native American who believed...
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    Nonintercourse Act (1790, 1793, 1796, 1799, 1802, 1834) Indian Removal Act (1830) Dawes Act (1887) Curtis Act of 1898 Indian Reorganization Act (1934) Indian...
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    Unassigned Lands (category Former regions and territories of the United States)
    Under the later Curtis Act of 1898, the communal lands of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory were allocated to registered heads of households,...
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    needed] The Curtis Act of 1898 advanced the break-up of Native American government. For the Oklahoma Territory, this meant abolition of the Cherokee...
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    practice of hereditary chiefs. Under the Curtis Act of 1898, the government of the Cherokee Nation was dissolved in 1906, in spite of the resistance of many...
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    injury after falling from a horse as a young man. As a result of the Curtis Act of 1898, Barnett received title to 160 acres (65 ha) in Creek County in...
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    Henry L. Dawes (category Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts)
    (Also listed were freedmen of each tribe, and intermarried whites.) The Curtis Act of 1898 extended the provisions of the Dawes Act to the Five Civilized Tribes...
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  • counties. The Dawes Allotment Act of 1887 and the Curtis Act of 1898, intended to increase assimilation, provided for allotments of land to individual households...
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