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Title Meaning
Parochial Vary limited or narrow in scope or outlook.
Perpetuate To cause to continue indefinitely.
Pipestone Boarding School A school established in Pipestone, MN for the education of Indian children to facilitate the assimilation of Indians into mainstream American culture.
Prairie du Chien An early fur trading post on the Mississippi River in Wisconsin.
Psychic Relating to or denoting faculties or phenomena apparently inexplicable by natural laws.
Punitive Expeditions 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.