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Years That Changed History: 1776

Summary

The year 1776 saw the rise of a major Native American nation. Trace how the Lakota reclaimed the Black Hills of the Great Plains, central to their cosmology, establishing trade and a horse-based rule, and subduing other Native nations in the process. Grasp the power of the Lakota Confederacy, with the center of the continent under its domination; a people that would control this region for the next century.