Article 10 provided for an allotment of clothes, and food, in addition to one "good American cow" and two oxen for each lodge or family who moved to the reservation. Article 11 included several provisions stating the tribes agreed to withdraw opposition to the construction of railroads mentioned three times , military posts and roads, and will not attack or capture white settlers or their property. As one source examined the treaty language with regard to "so long as the buffalo may range", the tribes considered this language to be a perpetual guarantee, because "they could not envision a day when buffalo would not roam the plains"; however:.
Despite Sioux promises of undisturbed construction of railroads and no attacks, more than 10 surveying crew members, US Army Indian scouts and soldiers were killed in [46] [46]: Because of the Sioux massacre on the Pawnee in southern Nebraska during a hunting expedition in , the US banned such hunts outside the reservation. Article 12 required the agreement of "three-fourths of all the adult male Indians" for a treaty with the tribes to "be of any validity". The government agreed to furnish the tribes with a "physician, teachers, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmiths".
Article 16 stated that country north of the North Platte River and east of the summits of the Big Horn Mountains would be "unceded Indian territory" that no white settlers could occupy without the consent of the tribes. Article 16 did not however, address issues related to important hunting grounds north and northwest of the reservation.
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In , the US had acknowledged the claim of the Crow to this area. The US Government could only dispose of Crow treaty territory, because it held parallel negotiations with the Crow tribe. The talks ended on May 7, It was possible for the Peace Commission to allow the Sioux to hunt on the Republican Fork in Nebraska miles south of the Sioux reservation along with others, because the US held the title to this river area.
The Cheyenne and Arapaho had ceded the western part of the Republican Fork in in a more-or-less well-understood treaty. The Pawnee held a treaty right to hunt in their ceded territory. The treaty, as agreed to "shall be construed as abrogating and annulling all treaties and agreements heretofore entered into. Over the course of days ending November 6, the treaty was signed by a total of Sioux, and 25 Arapaho, in addition to the commissioners, and an additional 34 signatories as witnesses.
As one writer phrased it, "the commissioners essientially cycled Sioux in and out of Fort Laramie Following initial negotiations, those from the Peace Commission did not discuss the conditions of the treaty to subsequent tribes who arrived over the following months to sign. Rather, the treaty was read aloud, and it was permitted "some time for the chiefs to speak" before "instructing them to place their marks on the prepared document. These tribes had little interest in or understanding of what had taken place at the Fort Laramie councils.
They wanted the whites out of their country and would fight as long as necessary. The process of abandoning the forts associated with the Bozeman Trail, as part of the conditions agreed to, proved to be a long process, and was stalled by difficulty arranging the sale of the goods from the fort to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Smith was not emptied until July Once abandoned, Red Cloud and his followers, who had been monitoring the activities of the troops rode down and burned what remained.
The peace commission dissolved on October 10 after presenting its report to Congress, which among other things, recommended the government "cease to recognize the Indian tribes as domestic dependent nations," and that no further "treaties shall be made with any Indian tribe. The US Senate ratified the treaty on February 16, Notable signatories presented in the order they signed are as follows. Two exceptions are included. Henderson was a commissioner, but did not sign the treaty. Red Cloud was among the last to sign, but is listed here out-of-order along with the other Oglala.
Although the treaty required the consent of three fourth of the males of the tribes, many did not sign or recognize the results. The treaty overall, and in comparison with the agreement, represented a departure from earlier considerations of tribal customs, and demonstrated instead the government's "more heavy-handed position with regard to tribal nations, and According to one source, "animosities over the treaty arose almost immediately" when a group of Miniconjou were informed they were no longer welcome to trade at Fort Laramie, being south of their newly established territory.
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This was notwithstanding that the treaty did not make any stipulation that the tribes could not travel outside their land, only that they would not permanently occupy outside land. The only travel expressly forbidden by the treaty was that of white settlers onto the reservation. Although a treaty between the US and the Sioux, it had profound effect on the Crow tribe, since it held the title to some of the territories set aside in the new treaty.
When a force of Sioux warriors confronted a Crow reservation camp at Pryor Creek in throughout a whole day, [7]: Both the tribes and the government chose to ignore portions of the treaty, or to "comply only as long as conditions met their favor," and between and , at least seven separate skirmishes occurred within the vicinity of Fort Laramie.
The government eventually broke the terms of the treaty following the Black Hills Gold Rush and an expedition into the area by George Armstrong Custer in , and failed to prevent white settlers from moving onto tribal lands. Rising tensions eventually lead again to open conflict in the Great Sioux War of The treaty would be modified three times by the US Congress between and , each time taking more land originally granted, including unilaterally seizing the Black Hills in On June 30, , the US Supreme Court ruled that the government had illegally taken land in the Black Hills granted by the treaty, by unlawfully abrogating article two of the agreement during negotiations in , while failing to achieve the signatures of two-thirds the adult male population required to do so.
The Lakota Sioux, however, have refused to accept payment and instead continue to demand the return of the territory from the United States. Marking the th anniversary of the treaty, the South Dakota Legislature passed Senate Resolution 1, reaffirming the legitimacy of the treaty, and according to the original text, illustrating to the federal government that the Sioux are "still here" and are "seeking a future of forward-looking, positive relationships with full respect for the sovereign status of Native American nations confirmed by the treaty.
On March 11, , the Governor of Wyoming , Matt Mead signed a similar bill into law, calling on "the federal government to uphold its federal trust responsibilities," and calling for a permanent display of the original treaty, on file with the National Archives and Records Administration , in the Wyoming Legislature. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
For the treaty by the same name, see Treaty of Fort Laramie Sherman third from left and Commissioners in council with chiefs and headmen, Fort Laramie, Sioux Nation of Indians. Indigenous peoples of North America portal. Red Cloud and five others were the last on November 6. Congress none-the-less passed an act in enacting the terms. Compare also this excerpt from the original document from the National Archives and Records Administration. According to one source, the previous November, both Sherman and Henderson were recalled to Washington D.
Military Bastion of the High Plains. University of Oklahoma Press. Retrieved April 23, A Good Year to Die: The Story of the Great Sioux War. Random House Publishing Group. Under orders to take no prisoners the militia killed an estimated men, women, and children, mutilating the dead and taking scalps and other grisly trophies of battle. Government that they would be safe in the territory they were occupying, but anti-Indian sentiments by white settlers were running high.
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Later congressional investigations resulted in short-lived U. Following the massacre the survivors joined the camps of the Northern Cheyenne on the Smokey Hill and Republican rivers. There the war pipe was smoked and passed from camp to camp among the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho camped in the area and an attack on the stage station and fort, Camp Rankin at that time, at Julesburg on the South Platte River was planned and carried out in January, Following the first raid on January 7, troops under the command of General Robert B.
They found the camp on the Republican River occupied by the tribes only after they had left. The bulk of the natives then moved north into Nebraska on their way to the Black Hills and the Powder River but paused to burn the telegraph station on Lodgepole Creek then attacked the station at Mud Springs on the Jules cutoff.
There were 9 soldiers stationed there, the telegraph operator and a few other civilians. The Indians began the attack by running the stock off from the station's corral along with a herd of cattle. Alerted by telegraph, the Army dispatched men from Fort Mitchell and Fort Laramie on February 4, about men in all. Arriving on February 5 the first party of reinforcements of 36 men found themselves facing superior forces, estimated to number warriors and with two men wounded were forced to retreat into the station.
The second party of troops under the command of Colonel William Collins , commandant of Fort Laramie, arrived on the 6th and found themselves facing to 1, warriors. Armed with Spencer repeating rifles the soldiers were able to hold their own and a standoff resulted.
After about 4 hours of fighting the war party left and moved their village to the head of Brown's Creek on the north side of the North Platte. Collins' forces were soon reinforced by 50 more men from Fort Laramie who had towed a mountain howitzer with them. With a force of about men Collins followed the trail of the Indians to their abandoned camp at Rock Creek Spring, then followed their plain trail to the south bank of the North Platte at Rush Creek where they encountered a force of approximately 2, warriors on the north side of the river.
An inconclusive fight followed and the decision was made to abandon pursuit of the war party. In his report Colonel Collins correctly predicted that the party was en route to the Power River Country and would continue to raid along the North Platte. His estimate of Indian casualties during the two engagements was to , many more than reported by George Bent a participant in the war party.
In the spring of , raids continued along the Oregon trail in Nebraska. January 27, while a brisk northwest wind was blowing the army fired the prairie from Fort McPherson to Denver. In Major General Grenville M. Dodge ordered a punitive expedition against the Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes that lived in the Black Hills region.
Connor was placed in command with hundreds of regular and volunteer soldiers at his disposal. Connor divided his force into three columns, the first was under Colonel Nelson Cole and was assigned to operate along the Loup River of Nebraska. Kidd , would march up the Powder River. Only minor skirmishing occurred until August 29, when Connor's column of about men encountered about Arapahos of Chief Black Bear in the Battle of the Tongue River.
That morning Connor's men charged and captured a village and routed the defenders who counterattacked unsuccessfully. A few days later a small party of soldiers and civilian surveyors was attacked by the Arapaho in what became known as the Sawyers Fight , three Americans were killed and it marked the last skirmish of the Powder River War.
Due to increasing demand of safe travel along the Bozeman Trail to the Montana gold fields, the US government tried to negotiate new treaties with the Lakota Indians who were legally entitled to the Powder River country, through which the trail led, by the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
Because the military sent simultaneously two battalions of the 18th Infantry under the command of Colonel Henry B. Carrington to establish new forts to watch over the Bozeman Road, the Indians refused to sign any treaty and left Fort Laramie determined to defend their land. Smith in the summer of His strategy, based on his orders from higher headquarters, was to secure the road, rather than fight the Indians.
At the same time Red Cloud and the other chiefs soon became aware that they were unable to defeat a fully defended fort, so they kept to raiding every wagon train and traveling party they could find along the road. Young eager warriors from the Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes formed war parties who would attack woodcutting parties near the forts as well as freight trains to cut their supplies.
Crazy Horse from the Oglala, Gall from the Hunkpapas and Hump from the Miniconjous were the best known ones among them. The relief party was commanded by Captain William J. Fetterman's party was drawn into an ambush by an estimated 1,—3, Indians and wiped out. Due to the high casualties on the American side, the Indians called the fight the "Battle of the Hundred Slain" ever since; among the Whites, it was called the "Fetterman Massacre".
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