1868

Second Fort Laramie Treaty

Northern Plains; Sioux / Lakota and allied signatories

The treaty protected a reservation including the Black Hills and imposed conditions on further land cessions. Subsequent U.S. seizure of the Black Hills violated those commitments.

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Context / qualification

Treaty rights must not be confused with a gift of land already owned by the United States.

Sources

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

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