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From the time Europeans arrived on American shores, the frontier—the edge territory between white man’s civilization and the untamed natural world—became a shared space of vast, clashing differences that led the U.S. government to authorize over 1,500 wars -
the system in the United States for Native American tribes and the system of affirmative action in India -
an agreement between the U.S. government and the Sioux and Arapaho nations that established the Great Sioux Reservation in what is now South Dakota and recognized the sacred Black Hills as Sioux territory -
a US federal law that broke up tribal lands into individual plots to encourage assimilation of Native Americans into mainstream society -
The Ghost Dance led to increased tensions, culminating in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, where hundreds of Lakota people, mostly women and children, were killed by U.S. soldiers -
Assimilation policies are governmental strategies to integrate ethnic or minority groups into the dominant culture through the adoption of its language, social norms, and customs