In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:Following the Rogue River Indian War in 1856 , most of the remaining natives were moved by the government to the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation . Sentence 2:However , seven families of Umpqua hid in the hills , eluding capture for many decades .
however