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An agency of the federal government of the US within the US Department of Interior. It's responsible for millions of acres of land specifically for American Indians, Indian Tribes, and Alaska Natives.
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A Hunkpapa Lakota Native American tribe leader who lead his people during years of resistance to US government policies.
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Also known as Joseph the Younger, he was a leader of a Native American tribe in the interior Pacific Northwest region of the US.
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It was a government act passed that would give any adult citizen in the US who had never have weapons with means of using them against the government would be allowed to have 160 acres of US land.
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Several acts of Congress that promoted the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.
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An act of the US Congress that provided grants of land to states in order to finance the establishment of colleges that would specialize in agriculture and the mechanic arts.
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A massacre of the Cheyenne and Arapaho people by the US Army in the Colorado territory.
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The overall name for the three treaties signed near Medicine Lodge, Kansas between the US government and the southern Plains Indians that was intended to bring peace by relocating the Indians to reservations.
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Red Cloud (Mahpuia Luta), the chief of the Oglala Teton Dakota Sioux, signed the Fort Laramie Treaty with 24 other tribal leaders and the representatives of the US government. One of those representatives was Lieutenant General William Tecumseh Sherman.
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Also known as the Black Hills War, it was a series of battles and negotiations between the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and the United States. The cause was the US government's desire to own the Black Hills.
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An armed engagement between the combined forces of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the US Army. It's also known as Custer's Last Stand.
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These people were African Americans who migrated from states along the Mississippi River out to Kansas as a part of the Exoduster Movement.
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An act the authorized the US President to break up tribal lands into by partitioning them into individual plots of land.
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A dance done by Native American tribes that was believed to drive the white invaders away and out of their territory.
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A domestic massacre of several hundred Lakotan Indians by the US Army. Almost half of the casualties were innocent women and children.
