Treaty of Fort Laramie

Examples of Treaty of Fort Laramie in the following topics:

• American Indian Rights

  • Many of the demands of the movement related to the U.S. government's obligation to honor its treaties with the sovereign American Indian nations.
  • According to the IAT, the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) between the U.S. and the Sioux should have returned all retired, abandoned, or out-of-use federal land to the American Indian people from whom it was acquired.
  • The organization was formed to address various issues concerning the American Indian urban community in Minneapolis, including poverty, housing, treaty issues, and police harassment.
  • In 1972, AIM activists marched across the country on what was called the Trail of Broken Treaties.
  • During this time, AIM developed and publicized a 20-point list to summarize its issues with federal treaties and promises.

• The American Indian Wars

  • In the case of the Santa Fe Trail, this was due to the friendly relationship between the Bents of Bent's Fort and the Cheyenne and Arapaho, and in the case of the Oregon Trail, to the peace established by the Treaty of Fort Laramie.
  • The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, signed with the United States by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne leaders following Red Cloud's War, set aside a portion of the Lakota territory as the Great Sioux Reservation.
  • Before Custer's column had returned to Fort Abraham Lincoln, news of their discovery of gold was telegraphed nationally.
  • Prospectors, motivated by the economic panic of 1873, began to trickle into the Black Hills in violation of the Fort Laramie Treaty.
  • Major battles for the Black Hills included the Battle of the Rosebud, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Battle of Slim Butte, and the Fort Robinson Massacre.

• The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds and the Fight for the Black Hills

  • The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, signed with the US by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne leaders following Red Cloud's War, set aside a portion of the Lakota territory as the Great Sioux Reservation.
  • Before Custer's column had returned to Fort Abraham Lincoln, news of their discovery of gold was telegraphed nationally.
  • Prospectors, motivated by the economic panic of 1873, began to trickle into the Black Hills in violation of the Fort Laramie Treaty.
  • Grant to honor existing treaties and stem the flow of miners into their territories.
  • Major battles for the Black Hills included the Battle of the Rosebud, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Battle of Slim Butte, and the Fort Robinson Massacre.

• The Treaty of Fort Stanwix

  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was one of several treaties signed between Native Americans and the United States after the American Revolution.
  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was a treaty signed in October 1784 between the United States and its Native Americans at Fort Stanwix (located in present-day Rome, New York).
  • The treaty served as a peace treaty between the Iroquois and the Americans, since the Natives had been ignored in the Treaty of Paris.
  • 1785 Treaty of Fort McIntosh with Wyandotte, Delaware, Chippewa and Ottawa leaders for lands in Ohio
  • 1786 Treaty of Fort Finney with Shawnee leaders for portions of Ohio

• Attack on Fort Sumter

  • The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first armed conflict of the Civil War.
  • The Battle of Fort Sumter was the first battle of the American Civil War.
  • Conditions at the fort were difficult during the winter of 1860–1861.
  • He received news that Fort Sumter had only six weeks of rations left.
  • At about 7:00 a.m., Captain Abner Doubleday, the fort's second in command, was given the honor of firing the first shot in defense of the fort.

• Fort Ticonderoga

  • The capture of Fort Ticonderoga occurred in the early stages of the American Revolutionary War when a small force of Green Mountain Boys, led by Ethan Allen and Colonel Benedict Arnold, overcame a small British garrison at the fort and looted the personal belongings of the garrison.
  • After the 1763 Treaty of Paris, in which the French ceded their North American territories to the British, the fort was no longer on the frontier of two great empires, guarding the principal waterway between them.
  • After the war began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775, the British General Thomas Gage realized the fort would require fortification; simultaneously, several colonists had the idea of capturing the fort.
  • En route to Boston following news of the events of April 19, Arnold mentioned the fort and its condition to members of Silas Deane's militia.
  • In July of 1775, the fort was used as the staging ground for the invasion of Quebec that was launched in late August.

• Diplomacy

  • The formal ratification of the Articles of Confederation by all 13 states was completed in early 1781.
  • The Jay–Gardoqui Treaty with Spain in 1789 also showed weakness in foreign policy.
  • In this treaty—which was never ratified due to its immense unpopularity—the United States was to give up rights to use the Mississippi River for 30 years, which would have economically strangled the settlers west of the Appalachian Mountains.
  • Finally, due to the Confederation's military weakness, it could not compel the British army to leave frontier forts which were on American soil—forts which, in 1783, the British promised to leave, but which they delayed leaving pending U.S. implementation of other provisions such as ending action against Loyalists and allowing them to seek compensation.
  • This incomplete British implementation of the Treaty of Paris (1783) was superseded by the implementation of Jay's Treaty in 1795 under the new U.S.

• American Indians and the New Nation

  • During its early days, the United States implemented a series of treaties and policies with the purpose of acquiring land from and "civilizing" the American Indians.
  • Whereas it hath at this time become peculiarly necessary to warn the citizens of the United States against a violation of the treaties....
  • The Treaty of Fort Stanwix was signed in New York in October 1784 between the US government and the indigenous peoples of the land they now occupied.
  • In this treaty, the Iroquois Confederacy ceded all claims to the Ohio territory, a strip of land along the Niagara River, and all land west of the mouth of Buffalo Creek.
  • At one time, historians believed the Treaty of Fort Stanwix was an example of Iroquois being forced to accept unreasonable cessions.

• Jay's Treaty

  • British troops were still occupying forts on U.S. territory in the Great Lakes region (also known as the Northwest Territory) that were recognized as part of American soil by the Treaty of Paris.
  • Overall, the treaty achieved the primary goal of the withdrawal of the British Army from the Northwest Territory of the United States: The British agreed to vacate the six western forts by June 1796.
  • The map shows major territorial concessions following the Treaty of Paris.
  • Disputes arising over the failure of British troops to leave some of the territories ceded by the British in the Treaty of Paris, as well as British instigation of conflicts between Native Americans and the newly established United States, ultimately contributed to the need for Jay's Treaty in 1796.
  • Describe the role Jay's Treaty played in the political disputes of the early republic

• The Treaty of Ghent

  • British and American diplomats signed the Treaty of Ghent in December of 1814, ending the War of 1812 and restoring relations between the two nations.
  • The Treaty of Ghent was the peace treaty that ended the War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain.
  • News of the treaty finally reached the United States after the American victory in New Orleans and the British victory in the Second Battle of Fort Bowyer, but before the British assault on Mobile, Alabama.
  • This painting by Amédée Forestier depicts the signing of the Treaty of Ghent.
  • Describe the main components of the Treaty of Ghent, the treaty that ended the War of 1812