Black Hills Gold Rush

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19th-century event gold rush historical event

The Black Hills Gold Rush was a late-19th-century gold boom in the Black Hills of present-day South Dakota and Wyoming that drew thousands of prospectors onto sacred Lakota lands, intensifying conflicts between the U.S. government and Native American tribes.

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Label	Occurrences
Black Hills Gold Rush canonical	3
Black Hills gold rush	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	19th-century event ⓘ gold rush ⓘ historical event ⓘ
associatedWith	Deadwood, South Dakota ⓘ Homestake Mine, South Dakota ⓘ surface form: Homestake Mine
cause	discovery of gold in the Black Hills ⓘ
conflictWith	Arapaho ⓘ Sioux people ⓘ surface form: Lakota Sioux Cheyenne people ⓘ surface form: Northern Cheyenne
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
describedAs	gold boom in the Black Hills ⓘ
effect	establishment of Deadwood ⓘ establishment of Lead, South Dakota ⓘ increased conflict between the United States and Lakota Sioux ⓘ influx of thousands of prospectors ⓘ rapid growth of mining camps ⓘ violation of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 ⓘ
endDate	1877 ⓘ
hasCause	economic demand for gold ⓘ
hasEffectOn	U.S. Indian policy ⓘ settlement of the northern Great Plains ⓘ
hasParticipant	Arapaho people ⓘ Cheyenne people ⓘ Euro-American prospectors ⓘ Sioux people ⓘ surface form: Lakota people United States Army ⓘ surface form: U.S. Army
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
locatedIn	Black Hills ⓘ South Dakota ⓘ Wyoming ⓘ
mainCommodity	gold ⓘ
onTerritoryOf	Great Sioux Reservation ⓘ Lakota sacred lands ⓘ
partOf	Old West ⓘ surface form: American Old West history of South Dakota ⓘ history of Wyoming ⓘ
result	U.S. seizure of the Black Hills ⓘ dispossession of Native American lands ⓘ long-term legal disputes over Black Hills ownership ⓘ
significantEvent	Great Sioux War of 1876 ⓘ surface form: Black Hills War Custer Expedition of 1874 ⓘ Great Sioux War of 1876 ⓘ
significantPerson	George Armstrong Custer ⓘ
startDate	1874 ⓘ
timePeriod	late 19th century ⓘ

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Colorado Gold Rush → followedBy → Black Hills Gold Rush ⓘ

Black Hills → historicalEvent → Black Hills Gold Rush ⓘ

Deadwood, South Dakota → historicalEvent → Black Hills Gold Rush ⓘ

Charlie Utter → tookPartIn → Black Hills Gold Rush ⓘ

this entity surface form: Black Hills gold rush