The Fort Laramie Treaty

Question 1

when was it

Answer 1

1868

Question 2

what was agreed

Answer 2

in which the Great Sioux Reservation would allow the tribe to keep some of its land.

Question 3

what was set aside

Answer 3

The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 set aside 25 million acres for the Sioux. Additionally, the government built military forts across the Great Plains in an effort to protect miners and white settlers from Indians living off the reservation.