The Lakota Leader Who Forced The U.S. Army To Abandon Its Forts — And Won A War Most Americans Never Learned About

He watched the forts burn.

Then he signed the treaty.

The United States Army had built those forts to control the Powder River Country.

The Lakota burned them.

The United States government had promised that the Bozeman Trail would be open for civilian traffic.

The trail was closed.

This is not a footnote to American history.

It is one of the most consequential chapters in the history of the relationship between the United States and the Indigenous nations of North America.