<span>The plain Indians sign the treaty of fort Laramie, which ceded some of their land to allow the passage of wagon trains because they were promised by the government that the remaining Indian land would remain untouched in the hopes that their culture may be preserved. But the effect was that they suffered extreme poverty, their culture and land was violated and was mainly ruled by outside bureaucrats.</span>
The Korean War has been called “the Forgotten War” in the United States, where coverage of the 1950s conflict was censored and its memory decades later is often overshadowed by World War II and the Vietnam War.
But the three-year conflict in Korea, which pitted communist and capitalist forces against each other, set the stage for decades of tension among North Korea, South Korea and the United States.
It also helped set the tone for Soviet-American rivalry during the Cold War, profoundly shaping the world we live in today.
