The individual allotment policy continued until 1934, when it was terminated by the Indian Reorganization Act.
The Meriam Report documented the utter failure of the Dawes Act and the allotment policy.
Therefore, the allotment policy does not designate a change in reservation boundaries.
The 1892 Jerome Agreement, although never ratified by the tribes, implemented the new allotment policy, effectively removing millions of acres from the reservation.
He fought the allotment policy, under which the United States government took more than 7,000,000 acres (28,000 km2) of land from the Cherokee.
Thus the allotment policy was only a half-policy, providing the Paiutes insufficient resources to develop their land.
The allotment policy depleted the land base, ending hunting as a means of subsistence.
The theory behind the allotment policy was to "civilize" the Indians by forcing them to become independent ranchers and farmers on separate parcels of land.
The effect of the allotment policy on the Utes was disastrous.
The report addressed the poverty thought to have resulted from the individual allotment policy of the Dawes Act.