example of the lands lost due to the dawes act
The Dawes Act of 1887 was a post-Indian Wars law that illegally dissolved 90 million acres of Native lands from 1887 to 1934. Signed into law by President Grover Cleveland on February 8, 1887, the Dawes Act expedited the cultural genocide of Native Americans. The negative effects of the Dawes Act on Indigenous tribes would result in the enactment of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the so-called “Indian New Deal.”
It authorized the U.S. to divide indigenous tribal land into allotments for heads of families and individuals, leading to a loss of 2/3rds of land (~100 million acres) over the next 50 years.
The law converted traditional systems of land tenure into a state-imposed system of private property by forcing Native Americans to "assume a capitalist and proprietary relationship with property" that did not previously exist in their cultures, according to historian Kent Blansett. The act declared remaining lands after allotment as "surplus" and available for sale, including to non-Natives.
Between 1887 and 1934, indigenous people lost control of about 100 million acres of land, or about two-thirds of the land base they held in 1887, as a result of the act.
The loss of land and the break-up of traditional leadership of tribes had such devastating consequences that many scholars refer to the Dawes Act as one of the most destructive U.S. policies for indigenous people in history.
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How many people do you feel you can be your true, unadulterated self with? I could probably count them on one hand. Some of my good friends I keep communism out of it because they’re boring libs or apolitical. Some of my close comrades I can’t completely open up about being human trash because we have a organisational/professional relationship. I hide my political power level from my therapist and just say I’m an “activist”. I won’t talk honestly about my mental health with coworkers or most family members because I don’t want to concern them :agony:
hoo boy this hits a little close to home
it's probably like 2 if I'm being generous, I am not full "stalin shouldn't have stopped at berlin" with anyone most of the time unless I'm feeling really spicy. Added bonus I'm queer and semi-closeted too, I'm an absolute mummy of different kinds of masking
Pretty much no one
I used to have two (my bestie and my SO), but the latter is long since an ex and I haven't been that close with the former in many years. So...none. I guess my therapist would be the closest, but I don't talk politics with them, and there's yet still other stuff I hide. Guess I should at least work on that second part...will try to think of some dark corner of my mind to expose.