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Palmer, Mark H. – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2011
The fragmentation of large nineteenth-century reservations resulted in the creation of American Indian allotment geographies in the United States. Federal Indian policy, namely the General Allotment Act of 1887, allowed the US government to break up large reservations, allot land to individual Indians, and sell the surplus to non-Indian settlers.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Tribes, United States History, American Indian History