Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...treating their members individually, like any other racial group of U. S. citizens, was begun by Congress in 1871. The Government then formally refused to acknowledge or recognize any independent nation or tribe within U. S. boundaries. That put an end to treaties, but it was not retroactive. Land that had been acknowledged, in various of the 370 prior treaties made between the U. S. and the Indians, as belonging to tribes of Indians, was allotted to individual Indians in those tribes under an act of 1897. Some 206,000 Indians received private property by these allotments...
Prior to the year 1898 life in Oklahoma was not complex for Jackson Barnett, a Creek Indian. He could neither read nor write, but he easily satisfied his humble needs by laboring occasionally for 50c a day. In 1898 the U. S. Government allotted to him 160 acres of land. That was good, he thought?a place all his own for his shack?plenty of space for roaming?maybe there was a little easy money in the land, in spite of its rocks and sterile soil...
...discovered on Mr. Barnett's land. He could not help it, but he soon found himself in possession of an odd million dollars. Life took on new aspects. A number of people became interested in Mr. Barnett. A white lady, one Anna Laura Lowe, mar ried him in Oklahoma and again in Missouri to tie up the bargain tightly. She persuaded him to give her $550,000 (of which her lawyer received...
Naturally the opposite view was taken by Bolivian officials at La Paz, where Minister of Public Works Zacarias Benavides solemnly declared "Communists are responsible for this outbreak. They have incited the Indians to establish the supremacy of their race and obtain the ownership of all land...
...picture drama of the skies. U. S. planes are filmed darting against German foes. Clouds below look like white flocks. Only after a ship has started its crazy dive to death do the tiny earth patches rush up to define themselves as gaping scraps of No Man's Land...