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3 unusual facts about Treaty of Fort Laramie


Charmaine White Face

She is known for her work in support of Native American rights, in particular as coordinator of the Defenders of the Black Hills, a volunteer organization centered around efforts to encourage the United States government to honor the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868.

Little Wolf

As chief, he signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie.

Montana v. United States

This ruling was consistent with one he made three years earlier, declaring in 1971 that, since the U.S. did not expressly withhold the riverbed in any of the Fort Laramie treaties, it gave the tribes “absolute right of use over the area described.”



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