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Wounded Knee, South Dakota

This was the site of the 1890 massacre by the U.S. Army of 150 Lakota men, women, and children who were traveling between reservations with Spotted Elk.

Indian Territory

This was the entire North American continent until Europeans and Americans started moving Indians to land west of the Mississippi.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs

This was an organization created to manage reservations and the affairs of Native peoples.

The Comancheria

This was an Indian empire that had as much power as the Spanish, Mexican, and American governments from the 1600s to the late 1800s.

The Lake Mohonk Conference

This was a place where white reformers, known as Friends of the Indian, met annually beginning in 1883 to advocate what they felt was the criminal treatment of the Indians by the U.S.

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

This was where William Henry Pratt opened the first Indian boarding school...

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