Allotment not only caused nearly 90 million acres of Indian land to be lost, but it also made using Indian land much more difficult and costly for Indians in the following ways: fractionation, reservation checkerboarding, and the creation of a class of landless Indians. Click on the issue you would like to know more about.

 


Fractionation

Checkerboarding

Landless Indians

 

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