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The Dakota Territory s formed by the U.S. Congress for settlement.
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The Homestead Act gives settlers vast areas of land previous occupied by indians.
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Black Elk was born near the Little Powder River in Montana Territory.
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The railroad reaches the Dakota Territory
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Black Elk is nine years old when he had his Great VIsion.
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Writer John Neihardt meets Black Elk. The old medican man agrees to narrate his life's events as a boy and a young man.
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Black Elk Speaks, by John Neihardt, is published.
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Black Elk dies onthe Pine Ridge Idian Reservation.
