"holding" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- For a moment it was as if the silence had fallen across the entire planet . . . everyone in front of their TVs rigid, a communal holding of breath.
- These include actions that contributed to the reversal of the Dawes Act's privatization of communal holdings of American Indian tribes and a return to local self-government on a tribal basis.
- In 1893, the Dawes Act required that the tribal communal holdings in the Indian Territory be divided into individual allotments.
- The commission divided large sections of land into household allotments to eliminate the traditional governments of the Cherokee and other tribes, which were based on communal holding of land.
- The Huron Cemetery remained part of communal holdings and was used by members in Kansas City.
- There was national legislation to extinguish tribal government and to establish individual household allotments of land in place of tribal communal holdings.
- Peasants were encouraged to register their communal holdings as private property and to consolidate their scattered strips into coherent farms.
- In 1887 Red Cloud opposed the Dawes Act, which broke up communal tribal holdings, and allocated 160-acre plots of land to heads of families on tribal rolls for subsistence farming.
- The communal holdings of native groups were also declared corporate property that were to be divided up and parceled out to individuals.
- The tribe retained some communal holdings and has resisted continued individual allotments since its reorganization in the 1930s.
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