This treaty further reduced the Kanza reservation to only 80,620 acres, where each family retained 40 acre allotments. The 175,000 acres acquisitioned by the U.S. was sold to non-Natives in 160-acre parcels, demonstrating that a 40-acre piece would likely be too small for support a Kanza family, perpetuating cycles of debt, starvation, and illness. Furthermore, the U.S. government practice of allotment not only allowed the U.S. to take more land but also enforced a model of individual land ownership onto the Kanza people that assaulted their cultural traditions and communal land use practices. See the Treaty of 1859 annotations for specifics about this history.