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" ... With the passage of the Dawes Act in 1887, the land area “controlled” by Indians was reduced by 50%. By the time the so-called Indian New Deal of 1934 arrived—reversing the policies set in motion by the Dawes Act—about 38% of the acreage that had been allocated to Indians under provisions of the Act was transferred to non-Indians through sales and other means. Moreover, much of the land that the Indians retained was semiarid or desert land in the Southwest. This, along with the fact that the average parcel awarded to an Indian was only 160 acres, resulted in a great deal of Indian ownership that was not economically viable. ... "