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Glossary Term – Event

Red Cloud’s War

Red Cloud, an Oglala Sioux chief, led resistance against the US Army’s effort to built forts along the Bozeman Trail in Lakota territory. Red Cloud’s series of successful assaults ended with the Fort Laramie Treaty in 1868.

Glossary Term – Event

Fort Laramie Treaty

The US signed a treaty with the Lakota Sioux setting aside the Black Hills of Dakota as part of the Great Sioux Reservation and protecting that region from white settlement. The treaty also provided for the removal of US military forts along the Bozeman Trail.