Terms
Title | Meaning |
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Title
Parochial |
Meaning
Vary limited or narrow in scope or outlook. |
Title
Perpetuate |
Meaning
To cause to continue indefinitely. |
Title
Pipestone Boarding School |
Meaning
A school established in Pipestone, MN for the education of Indian children to facilitate the assimilation of Indians into mainstream American culture. |
Title
Prairie du Chien |
Meaning
An early fur trading post on the Mississippi River in Wisconsin. |
Title
Psychic |
Meaning
Relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena apparently inexplicable by natural laws. |
Title
Punitive Expeditions |
Meaning
Also referred to as part of the "Indian Wars". In this case referring to the U.S. military campaign in the Western United States led by General Alfred Sully and others to capture, kill, and/or displace the Dakota in the aftermath of the U.S.-Dakota War. Lakota, Nakota, and other indigenous bands were also indiscriminately persecuted. Notable armed engagements were the battles of Wounded Knee, Little Bighorn, and Killdeer Mountain. |

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