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For 250 years the Indians had been driven out of their own territory, but shortly before the Civil War they still inhabited roughly half the United States. In 1860 the survivors of most of the eastern tribes were living peacefully in Indian Territory, what is now Oklahoma. In California resided the forty-niners, and in eastern Kansas and Nebraska nearly a quarter of a million Indians dominated the land. By far the most important lived on the high plains from the Blackfoot of southwestern Canada and the Sioux of Minnesota and the Dakotas to the Cheyenne of Colorado and Wyoming and the Comanche of northern Texas, the plains tribes possessed a uniform culture. All lived by hunting the hulking American bison, or buffalo, which ranged over the plains by the millions. Although the plain Indians seemed to represent freedom, pride, and self-reliance, they had begun to fall under the sway of white power. In 1951 Thomas Fitzpatrick, a founder of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company and an Indian......

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