Useful Links
Allotment Act — 1887
http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=airc_hist_allotmentact
Discusses the purpose of the act, its provisions, and problems executing the act.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/dawes-act
Indian Territory
Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York
Vol. 27, No. 3 (1895), pp. 272-276 (5 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/197313?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
How the Dawes Act Devastated Native Americanshttps://brownicity.com/blog/dawes-act-devastated-native-americans/
Remembering the 1887 Dawes Act’s Impact
https://www.potawatomi.org/blog/2021/02/08/remembering-the-1887-dawes-acts-impact/
http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=airc_hist_allotmentact
Discusses the purpose of the act, its provisions, and problems executing the act.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/dawes-act
Indian Territory
Journal of the American Geographical Society of New York
Vol. 27, No. 3 (1895), pp. 272-276 (5 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/197313?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
How the Dawes Act Devastated Native Americanshttps://brownicity.com/blog/dawes-act-devastated-native-americans/
Remembering the 1887 Dawes Act’s Impact
https://www.potawatomi.org/blog/2021/02/08/remembering-the-1887-dawes-acts-impact/
Primary Sources
“The White Man’s Road is Easier!”
A Hidatsa Indian Takes up the Ways of the White Man in the Late 19th century by Edward Goodbird. Following the passage of the Dawes Act in 1887, which forced Plains Indians to give up communal ways of life for individual family farms, many American Indians struggled to adapt to the new ways of life being dictated to them. But while many suffered under the federal government’s attempt to exorcise Indian customs and beliefs some, like Edward Goodbird, a member of the Hidatsa tribe in North Dakota, embraced the new order. In this excerpt from his autobiography, Goodbird described the often subtle ways in which Indians managed to retain small aspects of their culture.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/90
Prepare to meet us at Chetopa, Kan.
a large area of the beautiful Indian territory open to homesteaders ... for further particulars, call on or address the Indian Territory Colonization Society [1879].
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.02001900
A Hidatsa Indian Takes up the Ways of the White Man in the Late 19th century by Edward Goodbird. Following the passage of the Dawes Act in 1887, which forced Plains Indians to give up communal ways of life for individual family farms, many American Indians struggled to adapt to the new ways of life being dictated to them. But while many suffered under the federal government’s attempt to exorcise Indian customs and beliefs some, like Edward Goodbird, a member of the Hidatsa tribe in North Dakota, embraced the new order. In this excerpt from his autobiography, Goodbird described the often subtle ways in which Indians managed to retain small aspects of their culture.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/90
Prepare to meet us at Chetopa, Kan.
a large area of the beautiful Indian territory open to homesteaders ... for further particulars, call on or address the Indian Territory Colonization Society [1879].
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.02001900