Leaders of the Standing Rock and Oglala Sioux tribes say those who signed Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 never intended massive land cession. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 created the Great Sioux ...

In 1868, the United States entered into the treaty with a collective of Native American bands historically known as the Sioux (Dakota, Lakota and Nakota) and Arapaho.

1868 A second Fort Laramie Treaty is signed to establish the Great Sioux Reservation, the Southern Hunting Grounds, and the Unceded Territory which includes large swaths of modern-day Wyoming. 1876 ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.--Another great Indian reservation, marked upon the Land Office map by a green spot, surpassed in size only by the reservations of the Indian Territory, is to be thrown open to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Pine Ridge Reservation was originally part of the Great Sioux Reservation established by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, which encompassed ...

Members of the Great Sioux Nation could pocket a large sum set aside by the government for taking the resource-rich Black Hills away from the tribes in 1877. But leaders say the sacred land was ...

The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, Never Honored by the United States, Goes on Public View On October 26, delegations from the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Rosebud ...

The chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe is calling for the removal of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, arguing that it is carved in an area that is considered sacred land to Natives.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The Black Hills, including the land on which Mount Rushmore stands, was once set aside for exclusive use by Native Americans as part of the Great Sioux Reservation … ...

The Standing Rock Sioux Reservation was once part of the Great Sioux Reservation, which was established under the Treaty of Fort Laramie.