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** The Dawes Act of 1887 split the Indian tribal lands into allotments held by individual Indians.
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** and Act
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** and 1887
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** Beppe Fenoglio, Italian writer ( b. 1887 )
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** Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal ( b. 1887 )
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