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Dawes, Henry Laurens, 1816–1903, U.S. Senator (1875–93), b. Cummington, Mass. He was U.S. district attorney for W Massachusetts (1853–57) and a Republican member of the House of Representatives (1857–75). He performed his most important service as chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and gave his name to the Dawes Act Dawes Act or General Allotment Act, 1887, passed by the U.S. Congress to provide for the granting of landholdings (allotments, usually 160 acres/65 hectares) to individual Native Americans, replacing communal tribal holdings.
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Dawes, Henry Laurens (1816–1903) U.S. representative/senator; born in Cummington, Mass. A lawyer, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives (Rep., Mass.; 1857–75) and to the U.S. Senate (1875–93); in the latter he served as chairman of the senate committee on Indian affairs. He wrote the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 which granted homesteads and citizenship, after 25 years, to those Native Americans who renounced their tribal holdings. He then served as chairman of the Dawes Commission (1893), which was set up to resolve problems with the Five Civilized Tribes who lived in the Indian Territory.

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