Illustration: council at Medicine Lodge Creek. This drawing by J. Howland, originally printed in Harper’s Weekly, depicts the council between representatives of the U.S. government and the Kiowa and Comanche tribes at Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas, in October 1867.

On This Day: Medicine Lodge Treaty Forced Southern Plains Indians to Oklahoma

By Tony Pettinato on October 21, 2019

An article about the Medicine Lodge treaty, signed on 21 October 1867, that forced the Southern Plains Indians onto small reservations in Oklahoma... (Read More)

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