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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is one reason the Meusebach-Comanche Treaty between German settlers and American Indians in Texas important?
A
It was honored by both sides.
B
It ended the reservation policy.
C
It protected the buffalo population.
D
It was a guide for future negotiations.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The treaty allowed Meusebach’s settlers to go unharmed into Indian territory and the Indians to go to the White settlements; promised mutual reports on wrongdoing; and provided for survey of lands in the San Saba area with a payment of at least $1, 000 to the Indians.

Detailed explanation-2: -The 1867 Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek, the last treaty made with the Comanches, established a reservation for the Comanches, Kiowas, and Kiowa Apaches in southwestern Indian Territory between the Washita and Red rivers.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Meusebach–Comanche Treaty was a treaty made on May 9, 1847 between the private citizens of the Fisher–Miller Land Grant in Texas (United States), who were predominantly German in nationality, and the Penateka Comanche Tribe.

Detailed explanation-4: -On March 2, 1847, about 30 miles from the mouth of the San Saba River and north of Fredericksburg, John O. Meusebach, second commissioner-general to the Adelsverein, negotiated a peace treaty with the Comanche Indians.

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