land allotment
Designated property portion
A land allotment is a portion of land assigned to someone, typically by a government or authority.
The term often refers specifically to parcels distributed to Indigenous peoples under 19th- and 20th-century U.S. policies that divided communal tribal lands into individual holdings: Her great-grandmother received a land allotment in Oklahoma.
In British usage, an allotment is a small plot rented for growing vegetables.
- reservation systemSoftware managing advance bookings
- Indian TerritoryFederal land for displaced tribes
- homesteadingSelf-reliant land-based lifestyle
- forty acresTen-acre quadruple
- quarter section160-acre land unit
treaty rights · broken promises · federal recognition · tribal council · title deed · allottee · sovereignty · blood quantum · fractionation · self-determination · zoning · subdivision · property rights · deed · share · frontier · claim · portion
- Indian TerritoryIndian Territory, Cherokee Nation, Choctaw Nation, Seminole Nation, Cherokee
- Roman Surveyingdecumanus, cadastre, libra, limes, terminus
- Indian RemovalIndian Removal Act, Trail of Tears, forced relocation, Indian Territory, Andrew Jackson
- cultural erasurecultural genocide, ethnocide, forced assimilation, cultural erasure, identity loss
- Residential Schoolsresidential schools, boarding schools, government schools, mission schools, church schools
- Ritsuryopenal code, penal codes, military codes, legal reform
land allotmentcommon land
Collectively held open ground
communal land · collective ownership · commons · public land · open range
land allotmentcollectivization
Forced communal ownership transfer
expropriation · land seizure · nationalization · eminent domain · land grab