They "Look with Longing Eyes": Pre-Allotment Strategies on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, 1880-1885

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dc.contributor.advisorWeisiger, Marsha
dc.contributor.authorBrown , Madelyn
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-26T15:32:18Z
dc.date.available2022-10-26T15:32:18Z
dc.date.issued2022-10-26
dc.description.abstractBefore the ratification of a national allotment policy in 1887, the US Office of Indian Affairs used assimilation policies to prepare individual reservations for privatization. Situated within the larger themes of US colonialism and nineteenth-century Indigenous landownership, this microhistory examines assimilatory methods and their impact on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation from 1880 to 1885. During this period, the reservation became a space of conflict as government ideologies clashed with Indigenous and settler realities. In their attempt to prove the reservation was prepared for allotment, Indian agents only increased the Confederated Tribes vulnerability to settler interests through a faulty education system; cash-crop agriculture that promoted settler immigration; and the diminishment of a viable economic resource: pastoralism. With Indigenous allottees, white farmers, and white ranchers vying for available land, these assimilation policies did little to prevent settler greed—and extreme land loss—during the Confederated Tribes allotment era.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/27772
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectAllotmenten_US
dc.subjectConfederated Tribesen_US
dc.subjectNative Americanen_US
dc.subjectPrivatizationen_US
dc.subjectReservationen_US
dc.subjectUmatillaen_US
dc.titleThey "Look with Longing Eyes": Pre-Allotment Strategies on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Reservation, 1880-1885
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of History
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.levelmasters
thesis.degree.nameM.A.

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