... seeking refuge on American frontier came to the Yankton Delta. Prior to the arrival of the "white man" the Yankton claim approximately 13.5 million acres between Missouri and Des Moines River valley. They utilize the entire region for hunting and gathering food. But, by 1830s after the "trail of tears" they became the first Sioux to give a large amount of land to ... the United States. They ceded 2.2 million acres to the United States in order to cease tensions in the region by keeping the tribes separated. For more than half century the Yanktons had peacefully coexisted with non- India...

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