The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About
His prestige after the treaty was enormous.
He would spend the rest of his long life drawing on that prestige in the political arena of American Indian relations, negotiating, advocating, and attempting — with mixed and ultimately limited success — to protect what the 1868 treaty had promised.
The Black Hills and the Unraveling
The 1868 treaty promised more than it could deliver — not because the promises were impossible to keep, but because they depended on the United States government honoring its commitments when honoring them became inconvenient.
The crisis came in 1874, six years after the treaty was signed.
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