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Under the act of March 4, 1855, some two hundred and twenty thousand applications have been made for parcels of the public land. Many of this lost of applicants had received gratuities under the ...

The Umatilla, the Cayuse and the Nez Perce tribes signed the Treaty of 1855, creating what are today reservations for those tribes and transferring 6.4 million acres to the United States.

Perhaps the most famous of these are the Kutch Rebellion, the Kol Uprising of 1831 and the Santhal Uprising of 1855.The Kutch Rebellion, led by its chiefs, lasted in one form or another from 1816 ...