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The Lakotah nation was given official boundaries, but it was not necessarily followed. The US would look much different today if the nation of Lakotah still existed. The second Fort Laramie Treaty gave hunting and land rights to the Native Americans, but clearly the promises of the treaty were not upheld.

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President Lincoln signed the homestead act, which allowed people to have land in the West. This encouraged Westward movement, which was what the US needed to expand and grow stronger as a nation. The Homestead Act allowed white people to go into Native American land, and that meant less land and protection for the Native Americans.

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The Sand Creek massacre was against the Cheyenne and Arapaho Native Americans, and they were driven out of their land. The US troops had the advantage of more advanced weapons, which meant that the Native Americans never stood a chance against them. There were also multiple smaller attacks on the Natives that led to the Sand Creek massacre.

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1896 Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad 

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1896 Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad 

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The completion of the transcontinental railroad allowed for more and more people to move West. This meant that there were more people moving into Native American land, and less that the Native Americans could do to protect themselves and their land from the new settlers. The railroad also allowed people to move out West faster which was overwhelming for the Native Americans, and caused them to loose their land more quickly than they ever had before.

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Assimilation was white Americans trying to merge the Native Americans into American culture. This was done by sending Native American children to boarding schools where they were taught traditional white American culture and beliefs rather than their own cultural traditions. Assimilation was essentially an effort to completely wipe out Native American culture.

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This was one of the few Native American victories against the US. It was led by people from the tribe named Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull. The Sioux people felt as though they had been betrayed by the US since they allowed white people to go into the Black Hills and essentially just take land from the Native Americans.

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The Dawes Act was one of the most divisive things that the US did to the Native Americans. The government was legally allowed to split up reservation land. When a group of people is divided, they are less strong and less able to support themselves, and that is exactly what the government wanted. Being more separated also meant that there would be less uprisings and battles.

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American soldiers attacked a Sioux nation's territory and killed 300 prisoners of war there. They also killed the Chief, named Bigfoot. The advanced weaponry of the US troops gave the Natives no fighting chance at defending themselves.

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1907- Charles Curtis Became the first Native American Senator

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1907- Charles Curtis Became the first Native American Senator

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This was very significant for the Native American people because before 1907, they never had someone who was one of them to represent them in government. The Native Americans constantly had to deal with people in government saying that they would help them out, and then not following through with it. Since Charles Curtis was a Native American, he could help there be more big decisions made that would benefit the Native Americans.

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The supreme court ruled that since so much of the Sioux nation's land had been taken, that it was a violation of the Fort Laramie Treaty. The official ruling was the the Sioux nation would be payed 106 million dollars since that was about the price of the black hills when it was taken from the Sioux. The Sioux did not like this and said that the Black Hills were not going to be sold to the US.