The Dawes Act was the removal of Indians in America to preselected Indian reservations. Each Indian would be given a specific spot of land to call their own and do what they wished with. The head of the family was the person who took on the most amount of land, which was to be expected at that time period. The document continued to explain just how much each Indian would be given land-wise. The select number of Indians who did not receive an assigned reservation to live on could journey anywhere in the United States to live, while those already assigned reservations were stuck living there for the next 25 years. After that only those in the seat of president could decide whether or not to allow Indians more time on the reservation they were assigned.
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