Red Cloud's campaign against the
forts on the Bloody Bozeman was so successful that General Sherman
was obliged to sue the famous war chief for peace. Red Cloud
came to Fort Laramie in 1868 and signed the treaty after dictating
the terms of the peace, which the U.S. had no intention of
honoring. Those terms included recognizing the Sioux as the
owners of the Black Hills, a promise that was ratified and
immediately violated by George Custer, who led an expedition into
the mountains in search of gold in 1774, an incursion that
precipitated the conflict that would lead to his demise at the
Battle of the Little Big Horn two years later.
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