...proceeds of whose sale would be ample to defray all expense of the removals. ALLOTMENTS IN SKVEEALTT. It is doubtful whether any high degree of civilization...which provides that Indians shall select allotments in severally, and it seems to me a matter of great moment that provision should be made not only permitting,...

...ALLOTMENTS IN SEVEEALTT. It is doubtful whether any high degree of civilization is possible withont individual ownership of land. The records of the past...to the individual by all the guarantees which law cau devise, and that nothing less will induce men to put forth their best exertions. No general law...

...doubt it can. Later in the same report, under tho head of " Allotments in j Severalty," he says : " It is doubtful whether any high degree of civilization...will induce men to put forth their best exertions. It is essential that each individual should feel that his home is his own ; * * * that he has a direct...

...No doubt it can. Later in the same report, under the head of " Allotments in Severalty," he says : " It is doubtful whether any high degree of civilization...will induce men to put forth their best exertions. It is essential that each individual should feel that his home is his own ; * * * that he has a direct...

...In 1876 Commissioner John Q, Smith repeated his predecessor's views. " It is doubtful," he said, " whether any high degree of civilization is possible without individual ownership of land. It seems to me a matter of great moment that provision should be made not only permitting, but requiring,...

...such allotment, as indicated by Commissioner JQ Smith in 1876,10 when he stated rather forcefully: It is doubtful whether any high degree of civilization...and that nothing less will induce men to put forth then- best exertions. No general law exists which provides that Indians shall select allotments in...

...General Allotment Act of 1887, sometimes referred to as the Dawes Act. Proceeding on the notion that "[i]t is doubtful whether any high degree of civilization...possible without individual ownership of land," the federal government passed legislation providing for allotment of tribal lands in severalty to individual...

...communal social structure. "It is doubtful," wrote Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Smith in 1876, "whether any high degree of civilization is possible without individual ownership of land." An effective program of land allotment would break down the tribal edifice, destroy the system of dependence,...

...intermarried male whites did not acquire "any right to any tribal property, privilege, or interest whatever 40 "It is doubtful whether any high degree of civilization is possible without individual ownership ofland," COMM'R IND. AFF. ANN. REP., HR EXEC. Doc. No. 1, 44th Cong., 2d Sess. 381, 387 (1876); "Common...

...sense. The Indian commissioners of the era doubted, as John Q. Smith put it in his report for 1876, "whether any high degree of civilization is possible without individual ownership of land." The North Carolina Democrat Thomas Skinner, one of allotment's supporters in the House of Representatives,...