Bluetongue, Bison Diplomacy, and the Lakota Taking of the Powder River, 1858–1868

University of Montana Native American Studies professor Richmond Clow examines the environmental and cultural issues at play in the complicated territorial conflict between the Lakota and Crow over the Powder River Country and the ways in which the U.S. government engaged with both parties in the Fort Laramie treaties of 1851 and 1868.