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Dispossessed Again: Paiute Land Allotments In The Mono Basin, 1907-1929, Robert B. Marks
Dispossessed Again: Paiute Land Allotments In The Mono Basin, 1907-1929, Robert B. Marks
Eastern Sierra History Journal
Like most California Indians, the Kutzadikaa people in the Mono Basin on the east side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains were dispossessed of their land in the second half of the nineteenth century. However, they were not then removed to a reservation. They were left landless with no rights to reclaim their land until the Dawes Act (1887) made land allotments to non-reservation Indians possible. This article explores the history of land allotments in the Mono Basin, and places that story into the broader context of U.S. assimilationist policies but more importantly into the context of local history. Kutzadika …