The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
That loss produced the 1868 treaty, with its specific legal provisions and its specific legal obligations.
Those obligations still exist.
The story of whether they will ever be honored is still being written.
The Memory of the Burned Forts
When the Lakota burned Fort Phil Kearny and the other abandoned posts in 1868, they were doing something that was simultaneously practical and symbolic.
Practically, the burning eliminated any possibility of American reuse of the structures.
The Army had left behind buildings, equipment, and infrastructure that could, in theory, be reoccupied if American policy changed.
The burning foreclosed that possibility — or at least made reoccupation significantly more difficult.
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