“…Also, regarding the "amount of tillable land on each reservation and its population; the numbers clearly show that on most reservations, the amount of land required for allotment under the Dawes Act far exceeded that of tillable land" (Schwartz, 2000). While scholars are still working to understand the full-scale impact that allotment had and still has on tribal lands, leading scholars of allotment seem to all agree that allotment was a ploy to steal Native Lands (Carlson, 1981;Dippie, 1982;Hoxie, 2001;Prucha, 1984;Sutton, 2002;and so on). What we would like to bring to the reader's attention is that much of the data born from the implications of allotment are obscured by the very entity that is tasked with the empowerment of Natives in the United States, the BIA (Cobell v. Salazar, 1996;Meriam Report, 1928).…”