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.
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- Dictionary of American History by James Truslow Adams, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940
| Trials: | Cherokee Nation v. Georgia • Colliflower v. Garland • Standing Bear v. Crook • Cobell v. Kempthorne • Talton v. Mayes |
| Acts: | Indian Civil Rights Act • Civilization Act • Pueblo Lands Act • Native American Technical Corrections Act • American Indian Religious Freedom Act • Burke Act • Dawes Act • Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act • Indian Child Welfare Act • Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 • Indian Gaming Regulatory Act • Indian Intercourse Act • Indian Removal Act • Indian Reorganization Act • Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act |
| Other: | Public Law 280 • National Indian Gaming Commission • Dawes Rolls • Eagle feather law |
