What was the Medicine Lodge Treaty and who was the Siouxs leader in the American west?
Sitting Bull was the Chief of the Sioux. The Medicine Lodge Treaty was a set of three treaties signed between the United States of America and the Kiowa, Comanche, Plains Apache, Southern Cheyenne, and Southern Arapaho at Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas, in October 1867. Though commonly referred to in the singular, the Medicine Lodge Treaty actually consisted of three separate treaties. The first was signed October 21, 1867, with the Kiowa and Comanche tribes. The second, with the Kiowa-Apache, was signed the same day, while the third, with the Cheyenne and Arapaho, was signed on October 28. The United States federal government during this time repeatedly reduced the size of Indian reservations. The Medicine Lodge Treaty assigned reservations with the aforementioned tribes, bringing them in close contact with the Sioux, Shoshones, Bannocks, and Navajos, setting the scene for more conflict for dwindling resources. Under the first of the three Medicine Lodge treaties, the Kiowa and Comanche
