The similarties for The Dawes Act of 1887? A-Severalty - An estate (land or house) held or owned by an individual right.
→ Native American land was divided and given to individual families as opposed to being owned by the whole tribe.
→ After small pieces of land were given, the rest of Native American land was sold to Americans

B-Reservations (relocation) - A place where Indians were isolated with their own authority as if they were their own nation.
→ Native Americans would be sent to the least desirable land and forced to settle down and farm.
→ The tribes were generally isolated and they would have govern themselves.
→ The Army promised protection of Indian Reservation boundaries after former Indian lands were sold to settlers (miners, ranchers, and homesteaders).
C-Concentration- The separation and division of Native American tribes.
→ Used to separate Native Americans from Whites and to make tribes weaker.
→ Tribes would be broken up into smaller groups and sent to different places.
→ The government argued this was to avoid war and allow coexistence
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