The Dawes Commission, set up under an Indian Office appropriation bill in 1893, was created, not to administer the Dawes Act, but to attempt to get the Five Civilized Tribes, which were excluded under the Dawes Act, to agree to an allotment plan.

Jane and Timothy Dawes meet in a park, soon after their graduation, to plan their lives.

Among the provisions of the 1924 Dawes Plan was a plan to utilize the state railway completely for the payment of war reparations.

The Dawes Commission, set up under an Indian Office appropriation bill in 1893, was created, not to administer the Act, but to attempt to persuade the tribes excluded under the Act to agree to the allotment plan.

* 6 June-Germany accepts Dawes Plan, a US plan to help solve German debt.

Through sharp negotiating skills and powers of persuasion, Macdonald was able to successfully make the Prime Minister of France Édouard Herriot agree to all of the proposals in the Dawes plan, apart from an immediate withdrawal from the Ruhr.

Dawes and Tench had befriended the Aboriginals, and Dawes was even reported to have engaged in a relationship with an Aboriginal woman.

Charles G. Dawes, a prominent Republican businessman, was nominated for vice-president instead.

In the few primaries that mattered, Hoover did not perform as well as expected, and it was thought that the president or Vice-President Charles G. Dawes might accept a draft in case of a deadlock, but Lowden withdrew just as the convention was about to start, paving the way for a Hoover victory.

Dawes Act was amended in 1891 and again in 1906 by the Burke Act.

The Act was named for its sponsor, Senator Henry Laurens Dawes of Massachusetts.

The stated objective of the Dawes Act was to stimulate assimilation of Indians into American society.

They wanted nothing more than to rid themselves forever of their “ Indian problem ,” to relieve themselves of their impoverished, uncivilized counterparts and replace them with independent Americanized Christian agricultural society, and so on February 8, 1887, the Dawes Allotment Act was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland.

Responsible for enacting the division of the American native reserves, the Dawes Act was created by reformers in hope of achieving at least six accomplishments: the breaking up of tribes as a social unit, encouraging individual initiatives, furthering the progress of native farmers, reducing the cost of native administration, securing parts of the reservations as Indian land, and finally opening the remainder of the land to white settlers for profit.

In 1891 the Dawes Act was amended:

Angie Debo's landmark work, And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes ( completed 1936, published 1940 ), detailed how the allotment policy of the Dawes Act ( as later extended to apply to the Five Civilized Tribes through such devices as the Dawes Commission and the Curtis Act of 1898 ) was systematically manipulated to deprive the Native Americans of their lands and resources.

Hoover's reasons for his surprising reorganization of the RFC included: the broken health and resignations of Eugene Meyer, Paul Bestor, and Charles Gates Dawes ; the failure of banks to perform their duties to their clientele or to aid American industry ; the country's general lack of confidence in the current board ; and Hoover's inability to find any other man who had the ability and was both nationally respected and available.

Charles Gates Dawes ( August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951 ) was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States ( 1925 – 29 ).

For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a cowinner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925.

Dawes served in the First World War, was the Comptroller of the Currency, the first director of the Bureau of the Budget, and, in later life, the Ambassador to the United Kingdom.

Dawes was married to Caro Blymyer on January 24, 1889, and they had four children: Rufus Fearing Dawes, Carolyn Dawes, Dana McCutcheon, and Virginia Dawes.

No tribes accept DNA testing to satisfy their differing qualifications for membership, usually based on documented blood quantum or descent from ancestor ( s ) listed on the Dawes Rolls.

Among tribes, qualification may be based upon a required percentage of Native American " blood " ( or the " blood quantum ") of an individual seeking recognition, or documented descent from an ancestor on the Dawes Rolls or other registers.

This incident was chronicled in a derisive poem, based on the Longfellow poem " Paul Revere's Ride ;" it began with the line, " Come gather round children and hold your applause for the afternoon ride of Charlie Dawes.

" The choice of poem was based on Charles Dawes being descended from William Dawes, who rode with Paul Revere.

In 1925 he shared the Nobel Peace Prize, based on his work on the Dawes Plan and relieving an international crisis in 1923 related to German reparations after World War I.

It is likely that Dawes chose the name based on an English narrative poem by James Thomson.

Other companies based in the area in the past include Abingdon Motorcycles ( later becoming King Dick Tools ), Dawes Cycles, Girling Brakes, MEM Electrical, Harmo Exhausts, Wilmot Breedon and also the factory where Co-Operative Society ( CWS ) toys, motorcycles, prams and bicycles were made.

* The Juror is a 1996 film which depicts jury tampering, as does the novel by George Dawes Green on which it was based.

Membership is based on matrilineal descent from people listed on the Dawes Rolls or the updated records of 1973.

In 2001 she received a nomination for the Independent Spirit Awards for her role in film The Caveman's Valentine, based on George Dawes Green's novel of the same name, opposite Samuel L. Jackson.

An example of a tribal membership requirement is one based on documented lineal descent from a Native American member listed on the Dawes Rolls, or an early 20th century census.

Dawes Cycles is a Castle Bromwich, England based bicycle manufacturer, known for its high-quality hand-built touring bicycles.

The Cherokee require documented genealogical descent from a Native American listed on the early 1906 Dawes Rolls.

The modern Cherokee Nation, in the early 1980s, excluded them from citizenship, unless individuals can prove descent from a Cherokee Native American ( not Cherokee Freedmen ) listed on the Dawes Rolls.

Native Americans were registered on the Dawes Rolls and allotted land from the common reserve.

Such " Intermarried Whites " were listed in a separate category on the registers of the Dawes Rolls, prepared for allotment of plots of land to individual households of members of the tribe, in the early twentieth-century federal policy for assimilation of the Native Americans.

The Dawes Act had a negative effect on American Indians, as it ended their communal holding of property by which they had ensured that everyone had a home and a place in the tribe.

These include actions that contributed to the reversal of the Dawes Act's privatization of communal holdings of American Indian tribes and a return to local self-government on a tribal basis.

This is similar to the Cherokee Nation's reliance on individuals listed in the Dawes Rolls.

On September 5, 1912, the Dawes ' son, Rufus ( 21 ), drowned in Geneva Lake while on summer break from Princeton University.

For his work on the Dawes Plan, a program to enable Germany to restore and stabilize its economy, Dawes shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925.

Dawes was elected Vice President of the United States on November 4, 1924 with more popular votes than the candidates from the Democratic and Progressive parties combined.

Dawes and Coolidge were inaugurated on March 4, 1925.

His supporters considered putting Dawes on the ticket as vice president.