Medicine Lodge contract
The Medicine Lodge Treaty is a treaty negotiated in 1867 between the United States and the Indian tribes of the Crow , Blackfoot , Piegan , Gros Ventres , Sioux , Ponca , Cheyenne , Arapaho , Apaches , Kiowa and Comanche . Although the treaty is mostly spoken of in the singular, it actually consisted of three separate treaties, all three of which were signed in October 1867. The treaty allocated certain reserves to the tribes for agricultural use and also allowed them to leave them for hunting. The latter clause was repealed by the US government in 1868 . The contract was signed on the banks of the eponymous Medicine Lodge River near what is now Medicine Lodge in the US state of Kansas .