Winona LaDuke All Our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life (1999)
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During the mid-1800s, federal and private encroachment into Native areas protected by treaty increased dramatically and pushed Native nations and buffalo into smaller and smaller areas. During the 1860s, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, granting 90 million acres of western lands to railroad companies to persuade them to push into the West.

— Winona LaDuke

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Abraham Lincoln

About Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, a self-taught lawyer and politician, steered the United States through its most tumultuous period, the Civil War. His unwavering commitment to preserving the Union and abolishing slavery forever altered the course of American history and enshrined him as a champion of equality and justice.