Looking at the Dawes Severalty Act, in which was a law that was enforced and passed in 1887. It was the most important legal development in the Indian-white relations which was more than three centuries. Knowing they want to end the tribal- act the Dawes act let the tribal lands into small plots for giving each member in the tribe. Each tribal was a family, and each was given amounts of land and acres to children. They were sorted up in different amount of acres. The speculators had their eye on the tribal, in which the Indians wanted to have a backup plan in case so they had the federal government in trust since 25 years. Also, American citizenship that actually accepted the Indians was from the tribe and learned to adopt the civil life of gaining the white relations. The Dawes act took part in which 47 million of acres of property and land were given to Indians and their families. There was also another 90 million acres which were really fertile and were sold to the white settlers. Although Indians didn’t know much about farming or what it even was. There was a lease that was granted rather than attacking and chasing the land from the Indians. Farming was woman work, and in 1943, the government decided to have the idea of an ownership and in 138 million acres of Indian land decreased 48 million in which 1/2 was barren. In the tribal life, there was a main chief who was basically the main leader who was in charge of the unique life of living. It was basically a slaughter. It was finally realized when the plain Indians discovered that you can make leather out of buffalo which was around 1871. It was valuable leather in which hunters Williams F. “buffalo Bill” was also his hunting name. He was killing a lot of helpless beats between 1872-1874. A lot of people liked the taste and was basically all gone. There was also a “buffalo nickel” who was a designer. The Indians went to over board and were no longer could live off their buffalo in which there were a lot of problems going on with the Indians. For an example, poverty, unemployment, alcoholism all fell into the category of wards to the state. The Indians were forced to become like the whites and were expected to be able to read and write and started to appear into smaller areas which had became more crowded. The hunter Buffalo bill had a smart idea and he turned everything discussed above into a profitable business back in 1883. It was running for more than three decades in a row and showing off to the United States and Europe. Over more, it was coming to an end with the era so in 1885 they basically clustered into battle and little big horn performed in the show.
Divine, Robert A. America past and Present. 8th ed. Vol.2 Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall,2010.print.
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