Lands have been allotted in severalty to over two hundred.
An allotment of land in severalty has been directed to be made, much to the gratification and encouragement of the tribes.
As soon as they are fitted for it they should be induced to take their lands in severalty and to set up Territorial governments for their own protection.
Where a tribe has made considerable advance and lives on fertile farming soil it is possible to allot the members lands in severalty much as is the case with white settlers.
Nothing is said of severalty allotments or citizenship.
I believe, too, that the relinquishment of tribal relations and the holding of land in severalty may in favorable conditions aid this consummation.
I have always believed that allotments of reservation lands to Indians in severalty should be made sparingly, or at least slowly, and with the utmost caution.
It seems to me, however, that allotments of land in severalty ought to be made with great care and circumspection.
Lands in severalty have been allotted to many of them.
The isolation of the parts, the actual severalty and irrelevance of the modes, still presents a grave problem.
Natural science may advance step by step without ever losing ground; its empirical discoveries are in their severalty as true as they can ever be.
Many of the tribes had been educated to half-civilization, while lands in severalty had changed the point of view of many tribesmen.
An act passed in 1887 for the ownership of lands in severalty by Indians marked a great step towards solidifying Indian civilization.
In the Dawes bill it was provided that after the lands had been allotted in severalty the undivided surplus might be bought by the United States and turned into the public domain for entry and settlement.
Whether these concerns act in severalty or by collusion and conspiracy, in so defining the pecuniary terms of life for the community at large, is substantially an idle question, so far as bears on the material interest of the common man.
At the opening of Anglo-Saxon history absolute ownership of land in severalty was established and becoming the rule.
The Indians were guaranteed the same rights to lands in severalty and the division of common lands as in the case of other Indian communities thus disestablished.
Their great object should be to hold their land by severalty titles and to gradually adopt the manners and laws of life which prevailed among their white neighbors.
The tract purchased shall be conveyed in fee simple to the tribe so purchasing, to be held in common or allotted in severalty as the United States may decide.
Now, as the lands were awarded to the Indians in severalty under the Dawes Act, the old tribal holdings were surrendered and large areas were offered to white settlement.
The Dawes Act of 1887 had substitutedseveralty for tribal landholdings among the Indians.
I renew the recommendations therein contained as to extending to the Indian the protection of the law, allotting land in severalty to such as desire it, and making suitable provision for the education of youth.
Allotments in severalty have been made on some reservations until all those entitled to land thereon have had their shares assigned, and the work is still continued.
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