1. The Dawes Severalty Act
We can describe it with well- known quote from economy- supply equals demand. ... "To each head of family, one- quarter of a section; To each single person over eighteen years of age, one- eighth of a section; To each orphan child under eighteen years of age, one- eighth of section; and to each other single person under eighteen years now living, or who may be born prior to the date of order of the President directing an allotment of the lands embraced in any reservation, one- sixteenth of a section....
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