Matthew Gregg

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applied microeconomist | economic historian | indigenous econ researcher | former Little Rhody | views my own

Minneapolis, MN
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  1. Dec 4

    I’m happy to share a blog post I wrote for the Brookings “How We Rise” project on how tribal governments are constrained in their ability to support their communities through access barriers to public finance instruments

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    Nov 30

    What do tribal governments do? In this video, learn about how tribal governments are structured and how they serve both Native and non-Native people:

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  3. Nov 30

    This poster (even ignoring the racial underpinning of the use of Padani-Kokipa-Sni’s portrait for now) is a reminder that when it came to land dispossession, the “rules” were thrown out the window.

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  4. Nov 30

    Bringing this story to the present, work by undergrad Calico Ducheneaux reveals that if someone wants to convert fee land back to trust land, you have to “proof” to the DOI that you are not capable of managing your land (yes, the language from the 1880s is still around).

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  5. Nov 30

    So that’s the legal backstory behind that poster. The DOI is marketing the sale of “non-competent” (and inherited land) to prospective buyers. It’s still unclear to me why some people had their land sold and others didn’t.

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  6. Nov 30

    And if you were deemed “non-competent”, you might have your family’s allotment for you. Here is an example of a newspaper ads for “non-competent” land sales.

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  7. Nov 30

    So, if you were deemed “competent”, you received title to your allotment. History suggests that many “competent” Indians didn’t want fee simpe#le property or were not informed that their land was subject to local taxes

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  8. Nov 30

    have your family’s land sold by the DOI if DOI thought best. You didn’t get the land title: in fact, some of these heirs may not have received any allotment (eg, the land was divided up before they were born).

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  9. Nov 30

    So in 1910, Congress decided that if an allottee died intestate and the DOI determined that the heirs were “non-competent”, the DOI (under sealed bid...) could sell their heirship land. Thus, if you were considered “non-competent,” you could...

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  10. Nov 30

    All others were deemed “nom-competent” and the DOI decided that one’s property (their allotment) must be managed by the federal government (ie, remain in trust). The story seems to end there... except for this 1910 Act of Congress (and the poster) get in the way.

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  11. Nov 30

    Most know that competency commissions (and after 1917, the local Indian agent) scoured reservations and documented whether a tribal member was “competent” of managing their land (which the government defined as receiving the full title of their property).

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  12. Nov 30

    Numerous amendments altered the Dawes Act and this poster is the byproduct of a few of those amendments. I’ll discuss one: An Act of Congress in 1910 (25 US Code 372).which competes with collective wisdom on the treatment of so-called “non-competent” Indians.

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  13. Nov 30

    Those amounts will not add up to 60 million by 1934: therefore, if these posters are not marketing the sale of “surplus land”, then what was the BIA doing?

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  14. Nov 30

    In addition, the great work of the ILTF reveals that 60 million acres were sold as “surplus land” from 1887 to 1934. yet in this poster, the DOI = 350,000 acres will be up for grabs in 1911 (and if you do the math: 225,000 were sold by 1910)

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  15. Nov 30

    In fact, the surolus land was often sold in land lotteries. Here’s a political cartoon depicting the plight of the tens of thousands of losers in the Colville Reservation land grab.

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  16. Nov 30

    I’ve seen papers that suggest this poster is promoting the opening of “surolus land” to potential settlers. Well, that’s not the case: technically, that land was sold at the local land offices and not by sold “under sealed bid” by the DOI.

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  17. Nov 30

    For those interested in the history of Indian allotment, the details surrounding the Acts of Congress that spurred the creation of this infamous poster are peculiar and seemingly not well-known.

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    Nov 29

    This research paper uses three recently released nationwide data sets to establish the current state of the tribal in the US: 🌐 , &

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  19. Nov 28

    Great idea. Let me humbling add one more org to this: CAIRNS is a small shop but provide necessary resources on Lakota culture and history to SD schools.

    So it is that time of year when I am going to ask you to consider stepping outside of the norm…. 1. As you plan your festivities for , consider donating to one of these charities:
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    So it is that time of year when I am going to ask you to consider stepping outside of the norm…. 1. As you plan your festivities for , consider donating to one of these charities:

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