Burke Act

GPTKB entity

Statements (18)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:United_States_federal_law
gptkbp:amendedBy gptkb:Dawes_Act
gptkbp:category Native American history
1906 in American law
gptkbp:citation 34 Stat. 182
gptkbp:country gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:dateEnacted 1906
gptkbp:effect delayed citizenship for Native Americans until deemed 'competent and capable'
gptkbp:enactedBy gptkb:United_States_Congress
gptkbp:fullName An Act to amend section six of the Act of February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled 'An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and for other purposes'
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Burke Act
gptkbp:purpose to amend the process of granting land allotments and citizenship to Native Americans
gptkbp:relatedTo Native American citizenship
Native American land allotment
gptkbp:shortName gptkb:Burke_Act
gptkbp:sponsor gptkb:Charles_H._Burke
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Allotment_era
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7