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What Lakota medicine would be powerless in the face of the white man by the early 1860s but Lakota had lost most of their land through treaties all that remained in their possession but the sacred hey stop by getting 1866 the whites came o them again this time for permission to make a great Road through the Powder River Country to the newly discovered gold fields of Montana the great Lakota Chief Red Cloud of an immigrant road to the lakotas last hunting Rangers when the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood behind in I have two mountains in that country the Black Hills and the Bighorn mount ignore Road student the request for permission was only a sham soldiers were already on their way to secure the road with the line of forts Red Cloud put steel to his threat and for the next two years the Lakota held the troops under virtual Siege Show Wagon Train civilian or military was safe on the Bozeman Trail and luck with a raid coin. In the spring of 1868 General William Tecumseh Sherman came to Fort Laramie to make a peace treaty with Red Cloud but the Oglala leader sent a message saying when we see the soldiers moving away and the four I'll come down and talk reluctantly the war department complied the Bozeman Trail Fords were abandoned Red Cloud Road triumphantly into Fort Laramie and signed a treaty to clearing Powder River Country in the Black Hills unceded Indian Territory in return Red Cloud promise to go on the reservation where you at highlights again for eight years the Lakota would try to forget the whites but in the summer of 1874 Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer LED 1,200 men on a gold Hunting Expedition into the Black Hill duster sent report gold from the Grassroots down the Indians watch the torrent of riotous Prospectors pour into the Sacred Heart of their nation in complete disregard for the treaty the lights that made when Washington try to buy the Black Hills the Oglala war chief Crazy Horse replied does not sell the Earth upon which the people walk by Chief Sitting Bull