[…] each and every member of the respective bands or tribes of Indians to whom allotments have been made shall have the benefit of and be subject to the laws, both civil and criminal, of the Stat...

The Dawes Act drafters didn't use the word "allotment" because they were trying to win at Word Bingo. There's a reason they didn't just say "land."In the opening line, it is stated that the intenti...

One of the things that strikes Shmoop as presumptive and strange was the number of times the Dawes Act said that they were doing something only as long as it was to the advantage of the Native Amer...