The Northern Plains Indians
The United States wanted to prevent hostility, so they tried to get the Indians to agree to living on reservations instead of on their homelands. For the rest of the following century they struggled to force the Indians to accept it, they failed to do so in the end and were forced to more desperate measures to clear the west for western settlement.
The first policy was the Medicine Lodge Treaty, signed in Kansas, 1867. It divided the Great Plains into two huge Indian territories. In return for government supplies, most of the Indians stayed in their reservations. The Northern Plains Indians did not agree so readily. Red Cloud signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868, after the government agreed to abandon forts along the Bozeman Trail.
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The first policy was the Medicine Lodge Treaty, signed in Kansas, 1867. It divided the Great Plains into two huge Indian territories. In return for government supplies, most of the Indians stayed in their reservations. The Northern Plains Indians did not agree so readily. Red Cloud signed the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868, after the government agreed to abandon forts along the Bozeman Trail.
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