The decline in Native American wealth

I had not realized how negative were the effects of the 1887 Dawes Act, which broke up many Native American reservations. Before 1912: There was a nontrivial number of relatively wealthy superintendencies, which runs counter to the common perception of uniform poverty during this period. In 1912, the wealthiest superintendency had total per capital wealth […] The post The decline in Native American wealth appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION.