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Dawes, Henry Laurens

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Dawes, Henry Laurens (1816–1903)

US representative and senator. A lawyer, he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Republican for Massachusetts (1857–75) and then to the Senate (1875–93), chairing both the committee on Indian affairs and the Dawes Commission.

He was born in Cummington, Massachusetts. He wrote the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887, which granted homesteads and citizenship, after 25 years, to those American Indians who renounced their tribal holdings. The Dawes Commission (1893) was set up to resolve problems with the Five Civilized Tribes who lived in the Indian Territory.



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