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A group of militiamen from Pennsylvania killed 96 Christianized Delaware Indians, illustrating the growing contempt for native people -
Institutionalized the practice of forcing Native Americans off of their ancestral lands in order to make way for European settlement. -
Known as the Appropriation Bill for Indian Affairs, authorized the establishment reservations in Oklahoma and inspired the creation of reservations in other states as well. -
A conference was held at Fort Laramie, in present day Wyoming, that resulted in a treaty with the Sioux. -
A policy aimed at assimilating Native Americans into mainstream US society. -
The report and journal of proceedings of the commission appointed to obtain certain concessions. -
Authorized the federal government to break up tribal lands by partitioning them into individuals plots. Only those Native Americans who accepted the individual allotments were allowed to become US citizens.
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A mere two weeks later, on the US 7th Cavalry Regiment surrounded an encampment of Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota
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After they had proved unwilling to voluntarily accept individual allotments of land. The Dawes Act to apply to the Five Civilized Tribes as well.
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President franklin D. Roosevelt encouraged the passage of the US Indian Reorganization Act, which instituted a "New Deal" for Native Americans, authorizing them to reorganize and form their own tribal governments.