Ahhhh, rhetoric: Teachers love to teach it, students groan when forced to study it, but we can all agree that it's important. No matter what we're writing about, when we bother to put pen to paper...

Legal DocumentThe Dawes act is very clearly a legal document. It's written in clear, concise language (well, for lawyers it is…), and in the format used to write just about every law our country...

The Dawes Act is less a title than it is a declaration of whom we should blame for this legislation. Henry Dawes was this bill's most vocal proponent and drafter, and thus shoulders the responsibil...

These guys were all about the details. Here are the opening lines to the Dawes Act: Forty-Ninth Congress of the United States of American; At the Second Session, Begun and held at the City of Washi...

Sec. 11. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the removal of the Southern Ute Indians from their present reservation in Southwestern Colorado to a new reservation by and wit...

In-Text ReferencesHistorical and Political ReferencesLaws of the State of Kansas (Sec. 5)Executive Order regarding pre-existing legislation (Sec. 8)References to This TextHistorical and Political R...

Dawes was a good buddy of Abraham Lincoln. So good, in fact, that he was a pallbearer at Lincoln's funeral. (Source)Dawes and his cronies called the Act the "Indian Magna Carta." We call that some...