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.
The Great Sioux Reservation was the region reserved for the Lakota Indians between 1868 and 1889. The reservation was established by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, which set that region of the Dakota Territory aside for the Sioux, provided them hunting rights to the west of the reservation, and prohibited white settlement in the Black Hills. After gold was discovered in the Black Hills in the mid-1870s, however, white settlers began to encroach on the reservation, and the federal government refused to enforce the provisions of Treaty,...