On February 8, 1887, U.S. President Grover Cleveland signed the Dawes Act into law, introducing private land ownership to American Indians. This Date in Native History: On February 8, 1887, U.S.
[Congressman Henry Dawes, author of the act, once expressed his faith in the ... An act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend ...
The passage by the House of the Senate bill to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty on the various ... The original measure, as prepared by Mr. DAWES and as it came from the Senate ...
The other three tribes—Cherokee, Creek and Seminole—quickly followed suit and abandoned their governments and traditional ideas of land ownership in favor of allotments distributed under the Dawes ...