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Assimilation is the process of becoming part of another culture, and there are many ways to do so. You can Assimilate by Schools, Clothing, Languages, Shelters, and Religion.

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The United States wanted Native Americans to stop following buffalo and move onto reservations. In return, the U.S. promised to protect their lands. In 1859, gold strike at Pikes Peak,Colorado, sent miners swarming onto Native American land that was supposed to be protected.The treaty was broken by the United States.

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In 1860, new treaties forced Native Americans to give up land around Pikes Peak.The Warriors resisted and attacked supply trains and homes. Over 100 Cheyenne men, women, and children were killed.

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Soldiers guarding reservations saw Native Americans performing the Ghost Dance and thought it was the beginning of an uprising.Native American police were sent to a Sioux village to stop the dancing. In a struggle to arrest Sitting Bull, police killed him. Sioux tried to flee to safety. Army troops surrounded them at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Troops opened fire on the Native Americans with machine guns and rifles.They killed 200 Sioux men, women, and children.

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The Dawes Act of 1887 was failed because few Native Americans took up farming and sold their land cheaply to dishonest whites.Also Native American males received 160 acres of land to farm.Federal agents replaced their leaders.They had to give up their way of life and become poor and dependent on the government.

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The Ghost Dance believed they were talking to ancestors. In December 1890, Native American police struggled to arrest Sitting Bull and killed him by mistake.

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Geronimo was a Apache leader who refused to stay on a reservation. Geronimo was Captured in 1866 and sent to reservation in Oklahoma. Geronimo also survived by raiding settlers home.

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After the Sand Creek Massacre, African Americans veterans of the Civil War were recruited to fight Native Americans. They were given the name Buffalo Soldiers by the Native Americans because of their short, dark, curly hair reminded them of Buffaloes.The Buffalo fought valiantly on the plains for about 20 years.

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Sitting Bull was the leader of the Sioux, and he fought with Crazy Horse against Custer in the battle of Little Bighorn.This was the biggest Native American victory against the U.S. Calvary.

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Chief Joseph was famous for his 75 -day, seventeen hundred mile trek to Canada through Idaho and Montana, He was caught 40 miles from the U.S.-Canada border, and he was taken to a Indian reservation.

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Crazy Horse led his men into a battle against Colonel George Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn.Crazy Horse fought to protect the land and traditions of his people.

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In 1874, gold was discovered in the Black Hills of the Dakotas.The Native Americans attacked the miners.Colonel Custer was sent to move the Native Americans to a new reservation.Custer attacked large band of Sioux and Cheyenne at the entrance to Little Bighorn Valley in Montana, however Custer and all his men were killed at the battle.