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  Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner
.... In the West, the Homestead Act provisions were adapted to different localities. One form of the law, the Desert Lands Act, applied to arid land. ....
(2800 11 )

Failure of the Dawes Act
.... land policy. Consequently, the Sioux lost a significant portion of their tribal lands as a result of the Dawes Act. The Dawes Act ....
(1864 7 )

US, Canadian & Australian Exploitation of Natives
.... These actions are in some measure based in the 1921 Hawaiian Home Lands Act, passed by Congress to put a coda to the sad history of federal seizures of lands ....
(1683 7 )

Cromwellian Plantations in 1650s Ireland
.... In particular, the act of being stripped of their lands and transplanted to the unfertile region of Connacht formed a harsh memory in the minds of the Irish ....
(1441 6 )

Aussie Aboriginals
.... Some Aboriginals have been given 24 hours to vacate their lands under the Trespass Act and the government seldom fails to hide its hostility toward them. ....
(1899 8 )

American History
.... One goal of the Dawes Act was to convert tribal lands to individual ownership in order to more quickly assimilate Native Americans into the white culture. ....
(903 4 )

Indians Loss of Their Land
.... government. This Act cut Indian held lands from "155,000,000 acres" to "47,000,000 acres" almost overnight (Demis 44). Aside from ....
(1849 7 )

An Atlas of Apartheid
.... passed legislation to remove the indigenous people and divvied those lands among themselves .... These policies began in 1913 with the Natives Land Act and continued ....
(2651 11 )

American History Creeds & Events Definitions and Discussion C
.... The US Congress passed the Indian Removal Act in 1830, which authorized President Andrew Jackson to move Indians living east of the Mississippi to lands in the ....
(985 4 )

Introduction The words we use make a difference. Y
.... The language of the act talked about "choice" but in fact the native peoples were not given the choice to stay in their native lands but were forcibly removed. ....
(1888 8 )

Apartheid Policies in South Africa
.... leaders passed new laws to repress the blacks, take away their lands and make them .... the white government of South Africa instituted the Natives Land Act in 1913 ....
(2031 8 )

The Civil Rights Act of 1875
.... to end inequality among the races, the Civil Rights Act of 1875 .... Congress established the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, commonly known as ....
(1358 5 )

Importance of Land in Early America
.... therea". This Act was only one of a number of legislations that made the whiter man the owner and manager of what once were free lands. ....
(1182 5 )

Struggle of American Indian in Modern America
.... whites (Mander 275). The Dawes Act began a process that further reduced the lands claimed by American Indians. In 1881, the federal ....
(2556 10 )

Cheyenne
.... The Cheyenne had originally been told that these lands would be their forever, but the Allotment Act stated that parts of each reservation were to be broken up ....
(2474 10 )

Chief Plenty Coups of the Crows
.... instrumental in representing his people to the US government, including his successful efforts at protecting Crow lands that resulted in the Crow Act of 1920. ....
(2922 12 )

Chief Plenty Coups: Leading the Crow to a New Life
.... instrumental in representing his people to the US government, including his successful efforts at protecting Crow lands that resulted in the Crow Act of 1920. ....
(2922 12 )

Applicability of the UD to Indigenous Peoples
.... Hard hit are Indian reservations and lands near, or even on sites of nuclear .... The cause seemed to be the so-called "safety standards" under the Kerr-McGee Act. ....
(2315 9 )

Water-Related Development
.... Under the terms of the act, sales of federal lands meant to be arable on one hand were to foster farm creation, and on the other, sales of irrigation water to ....
(3608 14 )

Marc Reisner's Cadillac Desert
.... Under the terms of the act, sales of federal lands meant to be arable on one hand were to foster farm creation, and on the other, sales of irrigation water to ....
(3608 14 )

The Endangered Species Act
.... public policy." Less cautious than the earlier acts, the 1973 Act allowed any .... species of animals within the United States, on both private and public lands. ....
(3252 13 )

US Forest Policy
.... as the God Squad, and it has the power to suspend the Endangered Species Act. .... which would cut by more than one-third the timber production on federal lands. ....
(1706 7 )

Recruitment for Employment in Federal Government
.... From the Dawes Act of 1881, which ostensibly reallotted Indian lands to enable them to own private property but in fact enabled whites to purchase such property ....
(3788 15 )

Trail of Tears
.... of the US Supreme Court, the US Army began enforcing the Act, during which 1000s of Cherokees were collected and forced to travel from their lands or put into ....
(782 3 )

Leisure Industry of Australia
.... In 1989, provision for the granting of leases on reserved agricultural lands was made by the Pastoral Land Management and Conservation Act (Australia 1989). ....
(1259 5 )

Trail of Tears Cherokee Nation
.... President and gave his support to Georgia, who claimed sovereignty over the Cherokee lands. Two years after Jackson was elected the Indian Removal Act of 1830 ....
(915 4 )

Indian Tribes and Gambling
.... "State Authority to Regulate Gaming Within Indian Lands: The Effect of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act." Drake Law Review (1992), 317-338. Magnuson, Jon. ....
(3204 13 )

The history of Europe
.... Once these Western lands could become states, the ordinances of 1785 and 1787 stipulated .... The Embargo Act of 1807, the Non Intercourse Act of 1809, and the War ....
(3052 12 )

Manifest Destiny: Settlement of the American West
.... In 1882, Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, which essentially stopped the .... fact that America's expansion into the frontier went through Indian lands. ....
(851 3 )

Apartheid Novel
.... The Black Homeland Citizenship Act 1971 which changed the status of the inhabitants of the homelands so that they .... This is how Rosa lands in jail (Gordimer, 353 ....
(2533 10 )

 
 
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