Data

The Federal Register is a unique source. It is, as its publisher, the National Archives, puts it: "the daily journal of the Federal government."

Published in 1935, "Indian Land Tenure, Economic Status, and Population Trends" is an invaluable narrative and quantitative report that details American Indian land loss as a result of the US government's allotment policies and practices.

"Indian Land Transactions," commissioned by Montana Senator James Murray, documents the millions of acres of land Native people lost as a result of converting trust land to fee land from the late 1940s to the late 1950s.

The database is a compilation of every American Indian allotment from the passage of the General Allotment Act in 1887 through the end of the twentieth century.