More than 150 Native Americans from the Lakota tribe were killed by U.S. soldiers in the Wounded Knee Massacre.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The French government sold the entire Louisiana Territory, which included an area that now forms part of fifteen separate states, at less than 3 cents per acre.
Improved fencing systems were vital to the farmers who had headed west to settle in the Great Plains.
The Occupation of Alcatraz was launched by a group of 89 members of the Indians of All Tribes in an attempt to gain control under the Treaty of Fort Laramie that had been signed in 1868.
On the 25th June 1876, the Battle of Little Bighorn began when American Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led federal troops against the combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Plains Indians.
While some tribes signed agreements with the American government, tens of thousands of Native Americans were forcibly resettled by the military.
Approximately 200 Oglala Lakota and members of the American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota, for 71 days.
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued by King George III, banning settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Ishi, believed to be the last surviving member of the indigenous Yahi tribe, emerged from the wilderness in California.
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