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=== Impact on Native Americans === | |||
The Civil War led to significant dispossession and forced migration of Indian tribes west of the Mississippi. With the US military focused on the War, settlers formed militia to fight hostile native tribes, which led to abuse and at least one massacre at Sand Creek, Colorado. | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:term| explanation }}</ul></li>Dakota rebellion | following Minnesota statehood in 1858, the new state government reneged on prior agreements with the Dakota tribes to provide money and supplies in exchange for living in a designated region; Dakota appeals for fair treatment were ignored by the state, and in response the Dakota launched a surprise attack in 1862, burning farms and killing settlers, with 400 dead and thousands of whites fleeing; with help of nearby states, the government and US military responded ferociously and captured and sentenced 307 Dakoto warriors to death; Lincoln authorized 38 executions (the largest mass execution in US history); during the trials, Dakota tribes were gathered in an enclosed camp at Pike Island, near St. Paul, where dozens of tribe peoples died of a measles epidemic; the US military had to protect the Dakota from attacks by local Minnesotans}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Fetterman massacre | in response to the Sand Creek Massacre, native tribes attacked white settlers across the middle West, including in Wyoming where in 1866 Sioux warriors killed 80 US soldiers}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text: Indian Wars| series of US Army campaigns against western tribes; after another massacre of Indians in 1870 by US soldiers (killing 173 Blackfeet), President Grant ordered a revision of US government policies towards the Native Americans, including to appoint reform-minded leaders from the abolition movement to guide official policy, leading to such things as tribal land organization, new treaties, and building of schools}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Long Walk | forced migration of Navajo from western to eastern New Mexico by the US military }}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Sand Creek Massacre | Cheyenne tribes were instructed by US government agents to move to Sand Creek for protection from hostile settlers who were aggressively attacking tribes following the Dakota rebellion of 1862; before a treaty could be signed, on Nov 29, 1864 a Colorado militia attacked the camp and killed over 100 women and children; native tribes across the west retaliated, leading to further mutual violence}}</ul></li> | |||
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== Latter 19th Century == | |||
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=== Reconstruction === | === Reconstruction === | ||