The impact of US assimilation and allotment policy on American Indian mortality

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 122, number 28, July 2025.
Scholarship documents on the service of documents according to which a centerpiece of American policy towards the American Indians, the Dawes Act of 1887, caused substantial economic damage to American Indians. At the time of his repeal in 1934, the American Indians had lost around 80 million …