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Three decades before Lozen and Eclode's harrowing journey, the United States had acquired a big chunk of land from Mexico after a war, in what is now known as the southwestern United States. The US government sent American soldiers to the area with orders to force all the Native people onto reservations.
By 1874 about four thousand Apache people, including Lozen and her brother, had been driven off their homelands.