Answer:
Under the Dawes Act, allotments to individual Native American people were to be held in trust by the government for a period of 25 years. After this period, the individual Native American landowners would receive full ownership and control of their allotted lands. The trust period was intended to protect the Native American landowners from exploitation and to give them time to adjust to the new system of private land ownership, which was unfamiliar to many Native American cultures. However, the implementation of the Dawes Act was controversial and often resulted in the loss of Native American lands and culture.