Burke Act

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Burke Act (1906), was designed to correct certain defects in the Dawes Act of 1887, under which the land in the Indian reservations was to be broken up and distributed in severalty to the individual Indians. Because of the unpreparedness of most Indians for citizenship it provided that citizenship be granted on the final validation of their trust patents at the end of the probationary period of twenty-five years instead of on the receipt of the trust patents as stated in the Dawes Act.

Source: Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940