United States Interaction with Native Americans

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Tragedy at Wounded Knee (1890)

Helen Hunt Jackson, from A Century of Dishonor (1881)

Benjamin Harrison, Report on Wounded Knee Massacre and the Decrease in Indian Land Acreage (1891)

Congressional Report on Indian Affairs (1887)

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Compare these descriptions of United States interaction with Native Americans. Could the situation have turned out any other way?

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What were the motivations and actions of the government? How did some Native Americans perceive those motivations and actions?

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