The Sioux, Part 6: Horse Creek Treaty

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Lewis and Clark’s expedition of 1804-1806 created the initial corridor for the advance of American government across the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains.  Two treaties between the United States and the Indigenous tribes of the northern plains in the 19th century set the tone for a tense and final confinement of the Indian populations of the Dakota Territory - the Horse Creek accommodation of 1851 and the Second Laramie Treaty of 1868.  Sioux leaders, like Sitting Bull, Gall, Red Cloud, Spotted Elk, and others maneuvered between hostility and concessions in attempts to at least maintain the status quo or to manage fragile and mounting frustration of tribes over declining buffalo herds and serious outbreaks of diseases.  The Cheyenne and Arapaho, in particular, became increasingly allied with the roughly seven Lakota (Sioux) tribal subgroups.  All were migrating across the badlands and Black Hills into the immense and beautiful  Powder River and Yellowstone River basins.  But the miners and military were showing up too.  (HD, 20 mn. best if viewed large screen computer or TV)

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