Introduction:

Dawes/Homestead Act—Sixth Grade. ... The allotments were not the 160-acre parcels that most Indians got. They received 5-acre homesteads. ... Senator Moses Clapp, the Steenerson Act, and other legislation cut the size of Indian allotments in half, enabled the sale of timber on private allotments, and enabled the sale of allotted land itself ... ................
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