When could native americans own private land (not tribal owned)?

This question clarifies how tribal people have maintained their tribal affiliation as a social and political status. And it illustrates why Americans stories of "Indian blood" from a supposedly Fullblood ancestor living outside of Indian communities is bunk.

Look, there were some mixed bloods *without tribal affiliation living outside of communities for centuries, and there were also those that gave up their tribal citizenship to stay in their former territories and become American citizens (e.g. in the 1830s as with a minority of the Choctaw and Cherokee populations). But for the most part, heavy blooded Indians were part of tribal nations and not found scattered about in racist towns "hiding" their heritage as lone aberrations trying to fit into mainstream White society and buy a house. We are from communities and are citizens of tribal nations and always have been.

For Oklahoma tribes, the date at which they became American citizens and land owners started n the 1890s, up to 1906/7 during the Allotment process. And then for the remainder of Indian Country it was in 1924.

The premise of your story would be a bit implausible for most eras. It would have to be set in a more recent time period but not TOO recent because nowadays a lot of Natives have houses in non-tribal neighborhoods and don't get any kind of crap for it nor are they "outcasts" based on their heritage. There is only a small window where this would have been happening.

I'm with Ajidamoon, I don't really read non-fiction books about Natives written by non-Natives either. This is because they are usually inaccurate. Usually, writing about a "Native American" is just a literary crutch to make the character "interesting" - e.g. he's got "heritage, he's a lone aberration, walking the the White man's world making the best of things, he has mysterious ways, etc.

Iroquois, eh?

That isn't a tribe.......its a confederation. Nor is there much mining going on in the areas that the Haudenosaunee historically lived. Not much at all.

I found the information you are looking for, on the first try. If you intend to write a story, research is key.....which you will have to learn to do yourself.