Editing Dawes Act (section)

==Criticisms==
[[Angie Debo]]'s, ''And Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes'' (1940), claimed the allotment policy of the Dawes Act (as later extended to apply to the [[Five Civilized Tribes]] through the [[Dawes Commission]] and the [[Curtis Act of 1898]]) was systematically manipulated to deprive the Native Americans of their lands and resources.<ref name="princeton">[http://press.princeton.edu/titles/423.html Listing] for ''And Still the Waters Run'' at [[Princeton University Press]] website (retrieved January 9, 2009).</ref> Ellen Fitzpatrick claimed that Debo's book "advanced a crushing analysis of the corruption, moral depravity, and criminal activity that underlay White administration and execution of the allotment policy."<ref name=Fitzpatrick>Ellen Fitzpatrick, ''[[History's Memory: Writing America's Past, 1880–1980]]'' (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004), {{ISBN|0-674-01605-X}}, p. 133, [https://books.google.com/books?id=R9i8fRGKyuIC excerpt available online] at Google Books.</ref>