USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 (Horse Creek Treaty) was signed on September 17, 1851.

Detailed explanation-2: -It stipulated that Plains Indians would stop inter-tribal fighting, let white migrants and railroad surveyors travel safely through their lands, allow the US government to build roads and army posts in their land, and to pay compensation to the US government if their tribe members broke these rules.

Detailed explanation-3: -Treaty with the Sioux, Signed August 6, 1851 at Mendota. In these transformative treaties, Dakota people sold most of their land to the U.S. in exchange for $3, 750, 000 (estimated at 12 cents per acre), to be paid over decades. Little of the payment was received.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the spring of 1868 a conference was held at Fort Laramie, in present day Wyoming, that resulted in a treaty with the Sioux. This treaty was to bring peace between the whites and the Sioux who agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in the Dakota Territory.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Fort Laramie Treaty is significant because it marked the end of the Permanent Indian Frontier – the Native Americans could no longer live freely on the Plains. It paved the way for further treaties in the 1850s and 1860s which resulted in tribes losing land.