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The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced Native Americans to leave their homes and relocate to Indian Territory west of the Mississippi River. Many died from disease and starvation during the forced migration
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an agreement between the United States and the Sioux and Arapaho Nations that established the Great Sioux Reservation and promised the Sioux would own the Black Hills in perpetuity. -
a policy in the United States that forced Native Americans to live on legally defined portions of land -
a law passed in 1887 that allowed the federal government to break up tribal lands and redistribute them to Native Americans as individuals. -
a spiritual movement that began with the Paiute tribe of Nevada and spread to other Native American tribes in the Western United States -
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was the massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army. -
Granted full U.S. citizenship to Native Americans