Fort Laramie Sioux Indian Peace Medal

PEACE MEDAL, an antique replica heavy metal detailed pendant. The medal or pendant is large measuring 2 1/4 inches tall and 2 inches wide. It has Red Cloud in raised details. The back has "The Fort Laramie Peace Council 1868 The Sioux Nation and this United States will live in Peace and Friendship". This medal is a replica of a medal from the treaty made between the U.S. government and the Sioux in 1868, after Sioux tribes led by Oglala Chief Red Cloud stopped U.S. construction of the Bozeman Trail between Fort Laramie and western Montana. It guaranteed the Sioux the territory in South Dakota west of the Missouri River, but the government failed to honor the treaty when gold was discovered in the Black Hills in the 1870s.