Smithsonian Magazine6 年
The 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie, Never Honored by the United States, Goes on Public View
D.C., to see the Treaty of Fort Laramie installed at the National Museum of the American Indian. Signed in 1868, the treaty was broken less than ten years later when the United States seized the ...
ictnews7 年
Today in Native History: American Indian Movement Occupies Mount Rushmore
In order to demand that the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie be honored, Natives led by the American Indian Movement occupied Mount Rushmore on June 6, 1971. At dawn on June 6, 1971, a group of Native ...