Allotment Stories: Indigenous Land Relations Under Settler Siege was edited by Daniel Heath Justice and Jean M. O’Brien and published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2022. It contains many stories of families who experienced allotment.

“Allotment originates with a need to reduce the land that was held by Native Americans,” said Tehee.

She said that during the 1880s, the U.S. government was motivated to open land held by Indigenous peoples to the general population

“There is a real hunger for the land. There was an attitude that non-Indian ownership of land would increase the degree of civilization. There was this notion that promoting individuation among Indian peoples was going to be something that was positive,” she said.

Article in Tahlequa Daily Press.