Background of Medicine Lodge Treaty
In October 1867 almost 5,000 Indians gathered together near Medicine Lodge Creek in southern Kansas and met with United States leaders to form The 1867 Treaty of Medicine Lodge. The agreement made between the Kiowa and Comanche Indians (the Apache did not attend the meeting) and the United States set apart the KCA Reservation for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of the Tribes. Both sides agreed to cease all war between the two and the United States agreed that it would not allow others to pass over, settle upon, or reside in the territory described in the treaty. The Kiowa and Comanche Indians in turn ceded most of their lands over to the United States reducing their lands from approximately 93 million acres to just over 2.9 million acres. Payments to the Indians for the land would occur over 30 years. Article 12 of the treaty stated that no other lands could be ceded without the signatures of three fourths of the adult male Indians occupying the reservation.
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