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Plains Wars
Series of conflicts between the Plains Indians and the US Army 1850–90, during the era of US westward expansion. The Great Plains had been promised to the American Indians forever under the Permanent Indian Frontier policy of 1830, but had been increasingly invaded from the 1840s and the Indians forced onto Indian reservations. The wars were marked by massacres, reversals, and broken peace treaties on both sides. By 1891 the Plains Indians had lost their independence and lands.
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