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The Bureau of Indian Affairs' mission is to enhance the quality of life, to promote economic opportunity, and to carry out the responsibility to protect and improve the trust assets of American Indians, Indian tribes and Alaska Natives.
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This act allowed the United States to forced the Indians to move beyond the Mississippi River.
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Anyone over the age of 21 that had never taken up arms against the United States could file to claim federal land
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Was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux
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Was an armed conflict between the United States and several bands of the eastern Sioux
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The Sand Creek Massacre resulted in a heavy loss of life, mostly among Cheyenne and Arapaho women and children.
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Fetterman Massacre or Battle of the Hundred Slain, was a battle during Red Cloud's War on December 21, 1866, between the Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians and soldiers of the United States army.
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This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory.
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A train route across the United States, finished in 1869. It was the project of two railroad companies: the Union Pacific built from the east, and the Central Pacific built from the west.
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The 1851 Indian Appropriations Act allotted funds to move western tribes onto reservations.
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An unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O'odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S.
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Was a series of battles and negotiations which occurred between 1876 and 1877 involving the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States.
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A war between the Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne against the United States.
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Lieutenant Colonel Custer and his U.S. Army troops are defeated in battle with Native American Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne
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Through the Act, individuals may apply for a desert-land entry to reclaim, irrigate, and cultivate arid and semiarid public lands.
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Chief Joseph surrendered to General Oliver O. Howard of the U.S. Cavalry.
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The United States tried to "Americanize" the native americans so they built them a school so they could learn.
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Tells the experiences of Native Americans in the United States, focusing on the hard ships.
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A famous outlaw that fought in the land dispute called "The Lincoln County War"
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It was one of the most significant restrictions on free immigration in US history, prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers.
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A two-pair poker hand consisting of the black aces and black eights. Along with an unknown "hole" card.
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Was an armed conflict between the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Northern Arapaho on one side and the United States in Wyoming and Montana territories
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Geronimo and his followers had little or no time to rest or stay in one place. Completely worn out, the little band of Apaches returned to the U.S. with Lawton and officially surrendered to General Miles
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A 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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Buffalo Bill's Wild West show opens in London, giving Queen Victoria and her subjects their first look at real cowboys and Indians.
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United States National Park spanning eastern portions of Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera counties in the central eastern portion of the U.S. state of California.
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Resulted in the deaths of perhaps 300 Sioux men, women, and children.
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Allowed the President of the United States to set aside forest reserves from the land in the public .
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Is the argument advanced by historian Frederick Jackson Turner in 1893 that American democracy was formed by the American frontier.
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Allowed private companies in the U.S. to erect irrigation systems in the western semi-arid states, and profit from the sales of water.
