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Henry Laurens Dawes

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American politician (1816-1903)

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Henry Laurens Dawes was an American attorney and politician, a Republican United States senator and United States representative from Massachusetts. He is notable for the Dawes Act (1887), which was intended to stimulate the assimilation of Native Americans by ending the tribal government and control of communal lands.

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Henry Laurens Dawes was an American attorney and politician, a Republican United States senator and United States representative from Massachusetts. He is notable for the Dawes Act (1887), which was intended to stimulate the assimilation of Native Americans by ending the tribal government and control of communal lands. Especially directed at the tribes in Indian Territory, it provided for the allotment of tribal lands to individual households of tribal members, and for their being granted United States citizenship. This also made them subject to state and federal taxes. In addition, extinguishing tribal land claims in this territory later enabled the admission of Oklahoma as a state in 1907.

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Lived 1816 to 1903 · aged 86
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