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The Fort Laramie Treaty is often cited when talking about how evil the United States and Whites are against the Indians.
The thing is, it's not THE Fort Laramie Treaty.
It's the second.
The first one dates from 1851 and pretty much everyone ignored it from the moment it was signed.
Where it wasn't ignored, it was selectively cited by any given party of the thing as justification for doing something against the other parties.
Whites mined, hunted and farmed where they weren't supposed to.
Cheyennes and Arapaho attacked Sioux, whom they felt were just as much an invader as the Whites.
Settlers attacked Indians.
The Army ignored Whites encroaching on Indian land.
Indians attacked settlers and ranged far outside the treaty lands to do.
In short, nothing was changed a whit by sitting everyone down to sign the thing.
What's the definition of insanity again?
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