Lincoln (Neb.) - Oct. 20, 1997 - The effect of the Dawes Act of 1887 will be the subject of the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Emily Greenwald, assistant professor of history and Native American studies at UNL, will discuss "Allotment and the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation" from 3:30-5 p.m. Oct. 29 in the Great Plains Art Collection on the second floor of Love Library. The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception in the art collection are free and open to the public.
Prior to the Dawes Act, the various Lakota bands residing on the Cheyenne River reservation altered their settlement patterns as they adjusted to the increasing control of their lives by Euro- Americans. When the act took effect and the federal government required members of the tribe to select farm-sized parcels of land, the Cheyenne River Lakotas had already done so. By 1887, they had become sedentary and dispersed their population across the reservation.
Greenwald's presentation will examine the changing human geography at Cheyenne River in an effort to explain the compatibility between the Lakotas' settlement patterns and the Dawes Act's goals. The reservation is west of the Missouri River in north-central South Dakota.
The Olson seminars are presented by the Center for Great
Plains Studies at UNL.
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