Black Hills Betrayal

The government guaranteed Paha Sapa, the Black Hills, to the Lakota people through the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. Six years later, the government sent Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and a thousand-man expedition into the Black Hills. Custer took along prospectors who discovered gold there, setting off a stampede ending with the Lakotas’ loss of the Black Hills. Terry Mort’s Thieves’ Road: The Black Hills Betrayal and Custer’s Path to Little Big Horn recounts how the Lakotas were guaran