A little after this period, prospectors found gold in the very heart of the Lakota territory. The discovery of gold sent tensions among whites with the Lakota to a fevered pitch, in order to prevent a massacre of gold hungry civilians, the U.S. government mad another attempt at ceding the land of the Lakota people, most specifically, the Black Hills of South Dakota. In contradiction with the first treaty signed, the second one did not have the pardon of two thirds of the Lakota as the first had stipulated must happen for a valid treaty. The fact that the U.S. government ignored this stipulation exposed first the split between progressive, and traditionalist Lakota, and second, a kind of weakness that can come about in a more individualistic society such as that of the nomadic Lakota.

r had just ended, leaving a lot of civil war officers with a lot of soldiers, and no war to fight. With the white man’s irrational lust for gold on the eve of exploding in the Lakota territory, the U.S. government realized that they needed to send someone out to the Lakota to sign a treaty. Just as a treaty is about to be signed, the Lakota find some of the large, and largely unaccounted for, Army of the West, had set up a couple forts in the Lakota’s back yard. At this point, all treaties were dropped, and Red Cloud’s war began. During Red Cloud’s war, the Cavalry was forced out of Lakota territory, and the United States government agreed to sign a treaty banning any white people from entering the Lakota territory. At this point, Red Cloud visited Washington DC. And was treated very well by the Government there. Thi

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