Allottment Act
- An act passed in 1887 which gave the President of the United States power
to divide any Indian Reservation into individual allotments, on which a
twenty-five year trust period was to be imposed, and surplus lands not
allotted were authorized to be sold. The act has been considered
unjust to the Indian, because his lands of 155,000,000 acres have shrunk
to about 47,000,000 acres since its adoption; the Indians themselves
sell their allotments and "surplus lands" can legally be sold by the Government.
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