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1934

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Indian Reorganization Act ends further allotment

United States; Indigenous nations

The act halted further allotment under the general system and offered a framework for tribal government and land recovery. It did not restore all lost lands, and some nations rejected its prescribed governance model.

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A partial reform with contested provisions, not an unqualified end to colonial control.

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Jim Crow, exclusion, and imperial expansion

Segregation, racial violence, immigration exclusion, and forced assimilation shaped everyday life and national policy.

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