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An institutionalized the practice of forcing Native Americans off of their ancestral lands in order to make way for European settlement.
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established Indian reservations in the territory that would become the states of Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Kansas. -
an agreement between the U.S. government and the Sioux and Arapaho nations that established the Great Sioux Reservation in what is now South Dakota and recognized the sacred Black Hills as Sioux territory. -
a major victory for Lakota and Cheyenne warriors, who defeated and killed Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops -
Colonel George Armstrong Custer of the 7th Cavalry led his battalion in an attack on the main Sioux encampment at Little Bighorn, in a battle that is also commonly referred to as Custer’s Last Stand -
Is authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individual plots. Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens. -
Wovoka, a shaman of the Northern Paiute tribe, had a vision. Claiming that God had appeared to him in the guise of a Native American and had revealed to him a bountiful land of love and peace, Wovoka founded a spiritual movement called the Ghost Dance. -
soldiers of the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment indiscriminately slaughtered hundreds of Sioux men, women, and children, marked the definitive end of Indian resistance to the encroachments of white settlers. -
A “New Deal” for Native Americans, authorizing them to reorganize and form their own tribal governments.
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is a federal agency responsible for managing the relationship between the U.S. government and Native American tribes, overseeing land management, and promoting tribal self-determination.