Original sentence: It was known by the department of interior that virtually 95% of fee patented land would eventually be sold to whites (Robertson, 2002)
Edited sentence: Each "head of the family," which, in contrast to most indigenous traditional structures, became the male, received a 160-acre allotment and each single person over 18 and every orphan received an 80-acre allotment.It was know by the department of interior that virtually 95% of fee patented land would eventually be sold to whites (Robertson, 2002).Legislators' opinions of communal living saw the extended family as "needy" since indigenous ideas of wealth contrasted and disagreed with Western ideas of wealth.The United States government opened the surplus land to non-Native American settlement, creating the chequerboard pattern.The allotment policy abolished Native society leaving Native people as simply Americans, and impoverished Americans at that.The kin-network, which was the base of economic and social reproduction in Indigenous societies, split and the reservation became a checkerboard pattern.The practical results of the Act were disastrous for Native Americans