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Mass Extermination of Buffalo (1892)
This image, taken in Rougeville, Michigan, depicts one man standing on top of thousands of buffalo skills, with another standing in front of the pile with his foot on one skull. White settlers exterminated buffalo near the end of the 19th century [...]
Tags: buffalo, Westward Expansion
Item Type: Photograph
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
An Indigenous Student Argues for Assimilation (1902)
In 1887, Congress enacted the Dawes Act, referred to as the Dawes Severalty Act or General Allotment Act. It empowered the federal government to redistribute tribal lands: rather than being communally owned by tribes, land would be owned and farmed [...]
Item Type: Newspaper/Magazine
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)