As a part of the brokered peace, women got the vote. (Women in Australia and New Zealand already had that right but couldn't run for office.) Although Finland belonged to the Russian Empire, there was great unrest and the Tsar wanted to broker a quick peace. In 1906, Lavinia was 68 years old when Finland became the first European country to give women the vote and to allow them to run for political office. This meeting of Native Americans became the last great gathering of native peoples on the Great Plains. In 1876, at the age of 38 years old, Lavinia was alive when in the Spring, Sioux chief Sitting Bull's encampment in the region of the Little Bighorn River was expanded by "vast numbers" from other tribes. 16,543 natives were forced to march - it is estimated that 2,000 to 6,000 died along the way. When gold was discovered in Georgia in 1828, settlers wanted the Cherokee land. In 1838, in the year that Lavinia Ann Harris was born, on May 26th, the Native American Cherokee Nation was forced to march the Trail of Tears - relocating them to west of the Mississippi. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during Lavinia's lifetime.
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