1862 onward
Legislation / infrastructureBook sources
Pacific railroad land grants
Western United States; Indigenous nations
Railroad subsidies granted land as well as rights of way, encouraging commercial sale, migration, and further dispossession. Railroads also facilitated the destruction of buffalo herds.
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Context / qualification
Do not attribute the entire cumulative federal railroad acreage to one 1862 statute.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 8