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May 07, 2010
Lakota Dreams Review by Elizabeth A. Allen
Some time after the storied California Gold Rush of the early 1850s, a similar excitement occurred when precious metal was found in the Black Hills of what is now South Dakota. As European-American miners flocked to the region, they clashed with the Lakota Sioux tribe of Native Americans, who had settled there after conquering the Cheyenne in the 1770’s. Bloody conflict escalated, and after the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, where the Lakota killed over 250 U.S. Soldiers, the Lakota were increasingly shoved onto small reservations in western South Dakota.
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