On #ThisDayInHistory in 1887 the #DawesAct was signed into law. This subdivided #Indigenous reservations into individual plots, forcing capitalism onto #NativeAmericans, and allowed much of it to be sold by the government to white settlers. 100 million acres were lost. #LandBack

TODAY’S CUP OF
☕️ HISTORY-TEA ☕️:
How The Dawes Act Robbed Native Americans Blind!
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#DawesAct #LandBack, #NativeAmericanHistory #ColonialTheft #IndigenousJustice

🚨 New episode: Clash of Cultures

Explore the untold story of the Plains tribes — their way of life, their resistance, and the price of westward expansion.

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#History #Podcast #Lakota #DawesAct #PlainsCulture

On #ThisDayInHistory in 1887 the #DawesAct was signed into law. This subdivided #Indigenous reservations into individual plots, forcing capitalism onto #NativeAmericans, and allowed much of it to be sold by the government to white settlers. 100 million acres were lost. #LandBack

#OnThisDay in 1887, Congress passed the General Allotment Act (also referred to as the Dawes Act), which granted citizenship to Native Americans who were willing to disassociate themselves from their tribe, making them technically eligible to vote. This act had devastating implications. #DawesAct

February 8 Peace Love Art Activism | The Woodstock Whisperer/Jim Shelley February 8 Peace Love Art Activism, union miners begin what became a 5-mo strike that started when mine owners cut wages to $2.50 a day, from $3

#OTD #February8 #Peace #Love #Art #Activism #NativeAmericans #DawesAct 1887 #CrippleCreek #CO strike 1894, #AFLCIO 1955, #BoyScouts 1910 #BirthofaNation premiere 1915 #MarcusGarvey incarcerated 1925 #BLM #HattieCarroll 1963, #Orangeburg #SC massacre 1968 woodstockwhisperer.info/2017/02/08/f...