1851

First Fort Laramie Treaty

Northern Plains; several Indigenous nations

The treaty defined intertribal territories and accommodated travel and U.S. infrastructure. Later incursions and failures of protection undermined the territorial security it purported to provide.

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Context / qualification

Treaty context and later violations; not every treaty provision was itself a racial prohibition.

Sources

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 10

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