1850-1874 Era | Lesson 2: Native Americans & Settlers: Part 1 - Native American Treaties

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Native American treaties Native American Indian Treaties 19th century treaty NET Nebraska Studies Nebraska history Nebraska tribes indigenous people indigenous relations Indian policy Indian relations land treaties Homestead Act Fort Laramie Treaty American Indians Indigenous Peoples First Nations

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English-Language Arts History-Social Science

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1850-1874 Era | Lesson 2: Native Americans & Settlers: Part 1 - Native American Treaties

Many Native American tribes gave up land to the U.S. government during the 1800s. There were 18 separate treaties between 1825 and 1892 in Nebraska alone. By the time the Homestead Act was passed in 1862, most of the Nebraska Plains that had been promised to Native Americans for decades (and been their homes for centuries) was being sold off to homesteaders and railroad companies.

Learn more at NebraskaStudies.org.

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