Allotment had many serious consequences. First, there was a drastic reduction in land under Indian control. Already diminished to 156 million acres in 1881, the extent of Indian land plummeted to “about 50 million acres” in 1934. Another 500,000 acres were taken over by the government for military use during the Second World War, and then there were losses registered by “over one hundred tribes, bands and Rancherias” as a result of various acts of Congress during the termination era of the 1950s, described below.
