You can talk about the government and land in severalty. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 10, October, 1890] Reference
Cherokee property was held in severalty, or by the tribe. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
Provision has been made for giving lands in severalty, and the next great movement should be to induce the. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 11, November, 1888] Reference
As soon as they are fitted for it they should be induced to take their lands in severalty and to set up Territorial governments for their own protection. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Gregory for Marcus on Podex by Daddy de Wyer, old baga-broth, beeves and scullogues, churls and vassals, in same, sept and severalty and one by one and sing a mamalujo. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Where a tribe has made considerable advance and lives on fertile farming soil it is possible to allot the members lands in severalty much as is the case with white settlers. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Lands in severalty have been allotted to many of them. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland] Reference
Lands have been allotted in severalty to over two hundred. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Question (1874)] Reference
And whereas allotments of land in severalty to said Cheyenne and. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison] Reference
Lands were allotted in severalty, certain coal, oil, and asphalt lands being reserved. From Wordnik.com. [History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6)] Reference
The colony now began to prosper; men held their lands in severalty, and taxes were low. From Wordnik.com. [Comic History of the United States] Reference
Counties, in the south-east part of Kansas, the larger part of which is held in severalty by them. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Question (1874)] Reference
The isolation of the parts, the actual severalty and irrelevance of the modes, still presents a grave problem. From Wordnik.com. [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference
To hold material things either in community or severalty was in either case to bind oneself to the evil principle. From Wordnik.com. [Mediaeval Socialism] Reference
It seems to me, however, that allotments of land in severalty ought to be made with great care and circumspection. From Wordnik.com. [A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland] Reference
They were assigned a new reservation on the Omaha lands, where they now remain, occupying lands allotted in severalty. From Wordnik.com. [The Siouan Indians] Reference
An allotment of land in severalty has been directed to be made, much to the gratification and encouragement of the tribes. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Question (1874)] Reference
The group is made up of individuals, and the group's life is the life of individuals carried on in at least ostensible severalty. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
They are now on reservations, mostly owning land in severalty, and are citizens of the United States and of the state of Nebraska. From Wordnik.com. [The Siouan Indians] Reference
In 1887, the so-called "General Allotment" or "Dawes" Act, empowered the President to allot in severalty a quarter section to each head of an. From Wordnik.com. [History of the United States, Volume 5 (of 6)] Reference
Under the new regime land was held in severalty, and the spur of individual interest began at once to improve the condition of the settlement. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
He gave out land in severalty, and the laborer enjoyed the fruits of his own industry and thrift, or suffered the consequences of his laziness. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Christianity] Reference
Natural science may advance step by step without ever losing ground; its empirical discoveries are in their severalty as true as they can ever be. From Wordnik.com. [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference
North and South, East and West, who are not in a condition to become at an early day citizens of the United States and take their land in severalty. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Question (1874)] Reference
These number about fifty thousand persons, deduction being made of such as already have their lands in severalty, or as are hopelessly scattered among the settlements. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Question (1874)] Reference
They have lands allotted to them in severalty, and have made considerable advancement in agriculture and civilization, though they still follow the chase to some extent. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Question (1874)] Reference
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