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The Second Version Of The Fort Laramie Treaty Of 1868

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The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 was the second version of the first Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851. This first treaty drew tribal boundaries and provided compensation for the Plains Tribes. This treaty allowed United States military to establish military posts and compensated tribes for destruction of timber, grasslands and buffalo but it did not surrender Indian privileges to hunting or fishing grounds. This first treaty also ceded a “pathway” on Indian lands to allow a passageway for wagons headed west and in return the government promised that the remaining land would remain inviolate. Even though, that sounded like a good idea and the government would hold up their end of the deal, it did not end up working out. Settlers and miners traveling …show more content…

This version surrendered additional land for the Indians, promised Sioux tribes land from the Missouri River to the Black Hills and prohibited entry of white men onto Indian Land, as said in the treaty, “and the United States now solemnly agrees that no persons, except those herein designated and authorized so to do, and except such officers, agents, and employees of the government as may be authorized to enter upon Indian reservations in discharge of duties enjoined by law, shall ever be permitted to pass over, settle upon, or reside in the territory described in this article,….". The purpose of this treaty was to abandon the Bozeman Trail and guarantee the Indians control of the Black Hills that were scared to the Lakota Sioux. This version did offer many good things for the Indian tribes but it also proposed other conditions that the Native Americans must follow, such as, “…they will withdraw all opposition to the construction of the railroads now being built on the plains. 2d. That they will permit the peaceful construction of any railroad not passing over their reservation as herein defined. 3d. That they will not attack any persons at home, or travelling, nor molest or disturb any wagon trains, coaches, mules, or cattle belonging to the people of the United States, or to persons friendly therewith. 4th. They will never capture, or carry off from the

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