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Towards the end of the 19
th century the Native peoples of America were in a pretty rough spot. Before white settlers had arrived in the 17
th century they had spread out from coast to coast, representing numerous tribes, each with their own unique legends, customs, and cultures, but as settlers moved west, they experienced tragedy. Frontier settlers and the U.S. government would actively take land from the Natives, relocating them and violating treatises with the tribes the whole way, with Native revolts met with military force and many tribes beaten into submission. Violent confrontations, massacres, subjugation, and assimilation of tribes were rampant, as well as the lethal spread of diseases such as typhoid fever, to which they had no defenses, and towards the end of the 1800s many tribes had been nearly decimated, their cultures disappearing just as surely as their land, values, and past glory, many tribes mere shells of their former selves. This would bring about a spooky tra
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