Taking Indian Lands
Subtitle: The Cherokee (Jerome) Comission 1889-1893
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780806135137
Subjects: Indians of North America; United States - State & Local - General; Indian Territory; History; History - General History; United States; History: World; Native American; Indian land transfers; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Government relations; United States.; Cherokee Commission
First sentence: IT IS OFTEN OBSERVED THAT FROM THE PASSAGE OF THE Dawes Severalty Act in 1887 to the reversal of that policy by the Wheeler-Howard Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the Native American land base shrank from roughly 138,000,000 acres to 52,000,000.
Description: Examines the Cherokee Commission of 1889 and the U.S. strategies to negotiate the purchase of Indian land thus opening it up to white settlers.