Medicine Lodge Treaty

The Treaty of Medicine Lodge is a negotiated agreement in 1867 between the United States and the Indian tribes of the Crow, Blackfoot, Piegan, Gros Ventres, Sioux, Ponca, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Apache, Kiowa and Comanche. Although the contract is mostly spoken in the singular, it actually consisted of three separate contracts, all three were signed in October 1867. The treaty divided the tribes to certain reserves for agricultural use, and allowed them to leave this for hunting. The latter clause was in 1868 set by the U.S. government suspended. The contract was signed on the shore near the present town of Medicine Lodge in the U.S. state of Kansas at the eponymous Medicine Lodge River.