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The Great Sioux Reservation was an Indian reservation created by the United States through treaty with the Sioux, principally the Lakota, who dominated the territory before its establishment. [1] In the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 , the reservation included lands west of the Missouri River in South Dakota and Nebraska , including all of present ...
Sioux Indian police lined up on horseback in front of Pine Ridge Agency buildings, Dakota Territory, August 9, 1882 Great Sioux Reservation, 1888; established by Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) The Great Sioux War of 1876 , also known as the Black Hills War, was a series of battles and negotiations that occurred in 1876 and 1877 between the ...
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The Sioux Wars were a series of conflicts between the United States and various subgroups of the Sioux people which occurred in the later half of the 19th century. The earliest conflict came in 1854 when a fight broke out at Fort Laramie in Wyoming, when Sioux warriors killed 31 American soldiers in the Grattan Massacre, and the final came in 1890 during the Ghost Dance War.
The two groups fought bitter territorial wars during the 18th century. In the mid-18th century the Battle of Kathio, in which the Ojibwe defeated the Sioux, permanently established northeastern Minnesota, particularly Mille Lacs Lake, as Ojibwe territory relegating the Sioux to southern and western Minnesota.
The combined areas show the westernmost land recognized as Arikara, Hidatsa and Mandan territory in the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851). [1]: 594–596 The United States came into possession of area 529 by executive order of April 12, 1870, and area 620 by executive order of July 13, 1880. [4]: map facing p. 112
The Territory of Dakota was an ... The Department of the Northwest sent expeditions into Dakota Territory in 1863, 1864 and 1865. ... Map of the Dakota Territory, c ...
To combat the Sioux the U.S. army had a string of forts ringing the Great Sioux Reservation and unceded territory. The largest force arrayed against the Indians at one time was in summer 1876 and consisted of 2,500 soldiers deployed in the unceded territory and accompanied by hundreds of Indian scouts and civilians. [35]