"The President of the United States be, and he hereby is, authorized, whenever in his opinion any reservation... is advantageous for agricultural and grazing purposes, to cause said reservation... to be surveyed... and to allot the lands in said reservation in severalty to any Indian located thereon... to each head of a family, one-quarter of a section." — Dawes Severalty Act, 1887
Which event of 1890 most directly reflected the violent conclusion of the policy environment surrounding the Dawes Act?
- A
The opening of Oklahoma to non-Native settlement under the Curtis Act
- B
Custer's defeat at the Little Bighorn
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The Wounded Knee Massacre on the Pine Ridge Reservation
- D
The signing of the Treaty of Fort Laramie
Explanation
Wounded Knee (December 1890), in which the U.S. Seventh Cavalry killed roughly 250 Lakota, marked the violent end of armed Plains resistance. Fort Laramie (1868) and Little Bighorn (1876) preceded; the Curtis Act came in 1898.