Were their goals and remedies appropriate?
The tribal organization, with its tenure of land in common, with its con- stant divisions of goods and rations per capita without regard to service
Source: Merrill E. Gates, “Land and Law as Agents in Educating Indians,” in Francis Paul Prucha, ed., Americanizing the American Indians: Writings by the “Friends of the Indian,” 1880–1900 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1973), pp. 48–52; originally from Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners (1885).
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