Crazy Horse (Oglala and Mnicoujou Lakota) The Treaty of Fort Laramie was born of war on the northern plains. Led by Chief Red Cloud, the Sioux and their Cheyenne and Arapaho allies defeated U.S ...

The next treaty to go on display will be the Treaty with the Sioux and Arapaho negotiated at Fort Laramie in 1868. For more information on U.S.–American Indian treaties and other American Indian ...

The 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty recognized lands north of the Arkansas and South of the North Platte as those of the Cheyenne and Arapaho, so those two tribes could be considered the recent Native tribes ...

At the end of the war, Red Cloud signed the Second Treaty of Fort Laramie. In the treaty, the U.S. promised it would abandon the Bozeman Trail. The U.S. also gave the Lakota Sioux possession of ...

In the Dakota Territory in April of 1868, the Treaty of Fort Laramie granted the Sioux nation ownership of the Black Hills, which were considered sacred grounds for the Sioux (also known as the ...

The 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty defined the Plains tribes’ territory, and promised them protection and annuities (provisions) in return for safe passage by travelers through Indian lands.