Treaty of Fort Laramie
1868 · Event
The United States guarantees the Lakota the Great Sioux Reservation, including the Black Hills, 'for as long as the grass shall grow'. Custer's 1874 gold expedition and the seizure of the Hills made it one of history's most broken treaties.
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