Why didnt the Fort Laramie Treaty prevent the Wounded Knee Massacre in 1890?
During the mid-1870s many prospectors entered The Black Hills in search of gold. The U.S. Army did not keep the prospectors from entering the area guaranteed to the Native Americans in the 1868 treaty. Conflicts and confrontations started up again between the whites and Indians. One of the most famous uprisings occurred at the Battle of Little Big Horn where Custers 7th Calvary was defeated. In 1977 another treaty called The Black Hills Treaty gives The Black Hills to the U.S. The Native Americans are returned to the Great Sioux Reservation. Conditions for the Native Americans continued to diminish. The Great Sioux Reservation was reduced in size and there was a shortage of food and aid for the Native Americans. The poor conditions lead to a religious dance called the Ghost Dance. The Native Americans believed the Ghost Dance would remove all whites from their land and return large herds of bison. The whites did not understand the Native American culture and believed the dance was a ca
