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{{short description|American politician (1816β1903)}} {{redirect|Senator Dawes|the Nebraska state senate member|James W. Dawes}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific-prefix = | name = Henry Laurens Dawes | honorific-suffix = | image = HLDawes (1).jpg | alt = | jr/sr = United States Senator | state = [[Massachusetts]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1875 | term_end1 = March 3, 1893 | predecessor1 = [[William B. Washburn]] | successor1 = [[Henry Cabot Lodge]] | office2 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from Massachusetts | term_start2 = March 4, 1857 | term_end2 = March 4, 1875 | predecessor2 = [[Mark Trafton]] | successor2 = [[Chester W. Chapin]] | constituency2 = {{ushr|MA|11|C}} (1857β1863)<br>{{ushr|MA|10|C}} (1863β1873)<br>{{ushr|MA|11|C}} (1873β1875) | state_senate5 = Massachusetts | district5 = [[Berkshire County, Massachusetts|Berkshire]] | term5 = 1850 | predecessor5 = [[John Z. Goodrich]]<br>William A. Phelps | successor5 = Richard P. Brown<br>Asa G. Welch | office6 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term6 = 1848β1849<br>1852 | birth_date = {{birth date|1816|10|30}} | birth_place = [[Cummington, Massachusetts]], US | death_date = {{death date and age|1903|2|5|1816|10|30}} | death_place = [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]], US | spouse = | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | relations = | children = 5 | residence = | alma_mater = [[Yale University]] | occupation = | profession = Lawyer and Doctor | religion = | signature = Henry L. Dawes, Representative from Massachusetts, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-length portrait LCCN2010649211 (signature).jpg | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Henry Laurens Dawes''' (October 30, 1816{{spaced ndash}}February 5, 1903) was an attorney and politician, a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[United States Senator]] and [[United States Representative]] from Massachusetts. He is notable for the [[Dawes Act]] (1887), which was intended to stimulate the assimilation of Native Americans by ending the tribal government and control of communal lands. Especially directed at the tribes in [[Indian Territory]], it provided for the allotment of tribal lands to individual households of tribal members, and for their being granted United States citizenship. This also made them subject to state and federal taxes. In addition, extinguishing tribal land claims in this territory later enabled the admission of [[Oklahoma]] as a state in 1907.
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