The Plains Indians Agreed in the End: The Black Hills Would Not Be Sold

But the Allison Commission failed. The mounted Plains Indians thundered over the brow of the hill and down toward the banks of the White River where white commissioners huddled beneath the canopy of a tent pitched near a lone cottonwood. It was just before noon on September 20, 1875, opening day of the grand council …

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