No treaty document has been more scrutinized, controversial, or misunderstood than the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. To this day signatory tribes cite it as if it were binding as written, ignoring the subsequent history and the alterations to the original agreement. The government openly acknowledges the repeated violations and underhand- ed historical alterations of the original treaty but refuses to void and renegotiate the treaty. There are three major misunderstandings about the 1868 Treaty. First, the treaty is seldom identified as a peace treaty by either white historians or signatory tribes. The Wikipedia article does not even mention the words...

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