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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:United_States_federal_law
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gptkbp:affects
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gptkb:Native_American_tribe
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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gptkb:General_Allotment_Act
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gptkbp:appliesTo
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Indian reservations
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gptkbp:category
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gptkb:United_States_federal_Indian_policy
Native American history
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gptkbp:citation
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gptkb:24_Stat._388
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gptkbp:dateEnacted
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February 8, 1887
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gptkbp:effect
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reduction of Native American landholdings from about 138 million acres to 48 million acres
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gptkbp:enactedBy
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gptkb:United_States_Congress
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gptkbp:excludes
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gptkb:Five_Civilized_Tribes
gptkb:Osage_Nation
certain other tribes
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gptkbp:namedAfter
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gptkb:Henry_L._Dawes
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gptkbp:purpose
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to authorize the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Native Americans
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gptkbp:relatedTo
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gptkb:Dawes_Commission
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gptkbp:repealedBy
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gptkb:Indian_Reorganization_Act
1934
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gptkbp:resultedIn
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assimilation of Native Americans
loss of tribal land
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gptkbp:signedBy
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gptkb:Grover_Cleveland
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Native_Americans
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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4
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Dawes Act
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