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U.S military went to a war against many western tribes. The Native Americans divided into their leadership and drove right into the located homeland and inhospitable climates.
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Was attack on a village of sleeping Cheyenne Indians by a regiment of Colorado militiamen on 29 November 1864 that resulted in the death of more than 200 tribal members. There were dead women and children
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In the 1860's, the Indians were the Northeast corner were they became the Wyoming Territory. In 1864, John M. Chivington led to Colorado to volunteer troops. Red Cloud's is a man name, a indian man who was very quiet and faithful to this tributes
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It was a military where warriors from several Indian tribes thought to be peacefully settled on Oklahoma and Texas reservations, ending in the crushing of the Indian dissidents by the United States.
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It was known as Custer's Last Stand, the men from the 7th Cavalry under his charge were dead; the government wanted to portray him as a hero and the Sioux as villains
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The federal law intended to turn Native Americans into farmers and landowners by providing cooperating families with 160 acres of reservation land for farming or 320 acres for grazing.
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Sioux chief Big Foot and some 350 of his followers camped on the banks of Wounded Knee creek. In 1890 massacre left some 150 Native Americans dead, in what was the final clash between federal troops and the Sioux.
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Helen Hunt Jackson was a woman ahead of her time. Born Helen Fiske in 1830 in Massachusetts, Hunt-Jackson was a novelist who questioned the actions of the American government in regards to the Native Americans. "A Century of Dishonor" in an attempt to change government ideas/policy toward Native Americans at a time when effects of the 1871 Indian Appropriations Act (making the entire Native American population wards of the nation) had begun to draw the attention of the public. Jackson attended a
