"In all cases where any tribe or band of Indians has been, or shall hereafter be, located upon any reservation... the President of the United States be... authorized... 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 later policy most clearly reversed the assimilationist logic of the Dawes Act?
- A
The Curtis Act of 1898
- Bcheck_circle
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
- C
The Burke Act of 1906
- D
Termination policy of the 1950s
Explanation
The 1934 Indian Reorganization Act ended allotment and restored tribal self-government, repudiating the Dawes assimilationist framework.