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Encyclopedia: Dawes Commission

The American Dawes Commission, named for its first chairman Henry L. Dawes, was authorized under a rider to an Indian Office appropriation bill, March 3, 1893. Its purpose was to convince the Five Civilized Tribes to agree to cede tribal title of Indian lands under an allotment process to the individual Indian, enacted in 1887 (See Dawes Act for other tribes). In November 1893, President Grover Cleveland appointed Dawes as chairman, and Meridith H. Kidd and Archibald S. McKennon as members.

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Dawes Act

1891 and again in 1906, by the Burke Act. The Dawes Commission, set up under an Indian Office... excluded under the Dawes Act to agree to the allotment plan. It was this commission that registered...The Dawes Act of 1887 authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land...

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Oklahoma

run in 1894. Also, in 1893, Congress set up the Dawes Commission to negotiate agreements with each... claims before the land was officially opened for settlement. Congress passed the Dawes Act, or General... of giving preferential treatment to ex-slaves in land disputes. The Dawes Act excluded the Five...

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