1889
DispossessionBook sources
Great Sioux Reservation divided
Dakota region; Sioux / Lakota nations
Federal pressure and negotiations broke a large reservation into smaller units and opened millions of acres to settlement. Fragmentation weakened connections among communities and increased federal administrative control.
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Context / qualification
The book describes coercion and manipulation in obtaining signatures; distinguish these from a claim that none were obtained.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 10