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Indians had a collision with the British which was shown in the war of 1812. This was all a dispute over land. -
White settlers pushed westward. However the reservation system was published to help keep Native Americans off of the land where Europeans wished to settle
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This Act allowed the forcing of Indians off of their ancestral lands in order to make room for European settlement. -
When people found out about the gold in the west they wanted to move westward. This meant even forcing the indians off there land.
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As white settlers moved west they fought with indian tribes which was a series of wars including the battle of little bighorn. This battle was between US army and the Sioux.
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In 1868 there was a conference held at Fort Laramie what is now Wyoming. They signed a treaty this treaty was to bring peace between whites and Sioux who agreed to settle in the Black Hills reservation -
The US government forced Native American children to be sent to "assimilation" boarding schools where they would learn to be "American" -
This is the Act that authorized the Federal Government to break up tribal lands and partition them into individual plots.
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Wovoka was a shaman of the Paiute tribe said he had a vision. He claimed that God had appeared to him as a Native American and had revealed land to him. Wovoka began a movement called the "Ghost Dance," there mission was to banish all evil in the world.
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The US 7th Cavalry regiment surrounded Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee creek on an Indian Reservation in South Dakota. US army soldiers opened fire on the Sioux.