When Congress passed legislation in 1887 that allotted individual American Indians pieces of land while also granting them citizenship, proponents of the Dawes Act argued it would give them greater independence to farm their own land and help them assimilate into white American culture.
Research links 19th-century land program to sharp rise in Native American mortality
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