Indian Reservation

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The railroads were moving in just as rapidly as the settlers were , tearing up endless tracks of prairie land , and upsetting the migration patterns of land animals that tribal communities were sustaining from . Millions of buffalo were unnecessarily slaughtered , starting as a ``new delicacy ' for restaurant appeal in the East , and then being needlessly killed to make way for the railroad and to ``civilize the Indian ' Adding insult to injury , the land allocated to Indians was often of poor quality...


The Case Of Leonard Peltier

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Uranium . Consequently , such opposition by the traditional people from Lakota implied application of violence to stop acts towards opposing the lease and the sale of such reservation lands . This had even led to the death of more than 60 members of the AIM movement in violence against this exploitation . Consequently , the AIM got a summon to Pine Ridge Reservation in regard to protecting the traditional people from Lakota . Elsewhere , the tribal police got a lot of support from the FBI...