sentences:  By 1883/84, more than 300 Assiniboine died of starvation while forcibly incarcerated at the Wolf Point sub-agency.Rations were insufficient, and the suffering reservation-wide was exacerbated by particularly severe winters.Also in 1887, Congress passed the Dawes Act, which provided the general legislation for dividing the allegedly tribally-owned Indian reservations into parcels of land under individual titles.