The government of Canada received a request from myself and my family for land in severalty and tax exemption. |
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There exists in this country an endemic resistance to a single thing on a plate and equally an equation between quality and severalty. |
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The Indians interested should be given sufficient notice to enable them to select proper reserves and thus obviate the impracticable problem of severalty. |
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Therefore there were assurances that the government would not force upon them substantial changes in their way of life and that they would be permitted to hold their land collectively in reserves or in severalty. |
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The reserves are all in severalty but this is the very plan which has failed in the southern part of Treaty 8 and which an attempt is now being made to rectify. |
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In some cases, however, the main concern of the Indian Affairs administrators was to reduce survey expenses, and this led to a policy of discouraging Indians from choosing land in severalty. |
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She was promised the return of her people to the Malheur reservation and a severalty allotment of land there, but the order issued to that effect was never executed. |
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