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• when was the first Fort Laramie Treaty signed?

  17th September 1851
• who was the fort Laramie treaty between?

  US government and the indigenous peoples
• what tribes signed the Fort Laramie Treaty?

  • arpaho
  • Cheyenne
  • crow
  • sioux
• what were the terms of the Fort Laramie Treaty for the US government?

  • would protect indigenous peoples form the white Americans
  • pay indigenous peoples $50,000 yearly in food and goods
• what were the terms of the fort Laramie treaty for the indigenous peoples?

  • end fighting between tribes
  • allow railroad surveyors to establish roads throughout plains
  • allow military posts to establish forts throughout plains
  • let white settlers to travel across the land safely
• when people began migrating west what were the breaking?

  the agreement of the permanent Indian frontier
• what were the consequences of the Fort Laramie Treaty?

  • territories set out for indigenous peoples was the beginning of reservations
  • allowing white settlers, military posts and railroad surveyors in indigenous territory was the white settlement of the Great Plains
  • tribes begun to get money through resources form US gov and this was a loss of independence and restricted their nomadic lifestyle
• why did the Colorado gold rush cause a threat in the peace?

  100,000 settlers and miners poured in the area which was on Sioux and Cheyenne lands breaking the treaty
• why did the lifestyle of the indigenous threaten the peace?

  each band could decide if they wanted to follow the treaty or not as there was not 1 person who could decide it all
• why did railroad surveyors threaten the peace?

  they disrupted indigenous hunting areas
• why did the settlers threaten the peace?

  they moved onto the plains of Kansas and Nebraska
• why did the white Americans have tensions with the indigenous peoples over land?

  the white Americans thought the indigenous were savages because they didn't tend to the land or try to improve it
• the US army was used to force indigenous peoples away from the trails
• what did the government give the indigenous peoples on reservations?

  land to hunt buffalos but it was reduced in hopes they would take up farming
• why was their tension between white settlers and indigenous peoples?

  they killed lots of buffalo for meat to follow the Oregon trail and this disrupted the indigenous peoples buffalo hunting