Episode 1 of 4

Treaty Signing

When: April–November 1868
Where: Fort Laramie, Wyoming
Part of: Event of 1868: General William Tecumseh Sherman brokers the Treaty of Fort Laramie, between the

The Treaty of Fort Laramie was signed between April and November 1868, with Red Cloud among the final signatories.

Negotiations resulted in the second Treaty of Fort Laramie, signed between April and November 1868. Red Cloud and other tribal leaders accompanied him as signatories. The treaty defined reservation boundaries and hunting rights, though unstated provisions regarding land outside the reservation were assumed by commissioners.

Sources

Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868) Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-20

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.