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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 142745" data-attributes="member: 605">Lunk, I read your article and found it very interesting:<a href="http://nativeamericanhistory.about.com/od/Law/a/The-History-Behind-The-Cobell-Case.htm" target="_blank">http://nativeamericanhistory.about.com/od/Law/a/The-History-Behind-The-Cobell-Case.htm</a>I didn't know when the reservations were first set up, the land was held in Trust by the fed/gov. Basically, they lived in a commune. That changed in 1887 from the Dawes Act which broke up the communal thing and changed it to individual allotments. After 25 years a patent in fee simple would be issued. Each individual would own 160 or whatever to buy sell trade lease or work the land like any other citizen. With all the land in private ownership it could have completely led to the break up of the reservation. Not that that would have been a bad thing. As we know, the reservation didn't break up. But the Dawes Act had causes and effects. Natives who were designated as receivers of those acres in 1887 sold some leased some out and intermarried. Those initial acres have been fractionalized many generations. Owners upon thousands of different owners. These fractionated allotments are usually vacant parcels of land that  are still managed under resource leases by the US, and have been  rendered useless for any other purposes because they can only be  developed with the approval 51% of all other owners, an unlikely  scenario.<a href="http://nativeamericanhistory.about.com/od/Law/a/The-History-Behind-The-Cobell-Case.htm" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://nativeamericanhistory.about.com/od/Law/a/The-History-Behind-The-Cobell-Case.htm" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://nativeamericanhistory.about.com/od/Law/a/The-History-Behind-The-Cobell-Case.htm" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://nativeamericanhistory.about.com/od/Law/a/The-History-Behind-The-Cobell-Case.htm" target="_blank"></a></blockquote>

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