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Treaty of Medicine Lodge
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Treaty of Medicine Lodge

United States-Native Americans [1867]
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The Treaty of Medicine Lodge, signed in October 1867, was an agreement between U.S. commissioners and representatives of the Kiowa, Cheyenne, Comanche, Arapaho, and Kiowa Apache tribes. This treaty aimed to end conflict by opening the area to white settlement and railroads, and by establishing reservations for these Plains tribes in Oklahoma and Texas. However, many Native American warriors resisted this confinement, leading to raids on settlers. This resistance culminated in the Red River Indian War of 1874-1875, which ended with the U.S. military crushing the Indian dissidents and forcing them back onto their reservations.12

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