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Discretionary Dispossession: Bureaucratic Power and Land Tenure in Native Allotment Policy

Thu, April 23, 5:10 to 6:40pm CDT (5:10 to 6:40pm CDT), TBA

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This project examines how bureaucratic discretion in implementing federal land policies accelerated Native American land dispossession, using 10,000 land patents and geospatial data on soil quality.

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