Chapter 86: Chapter 86

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Something called the Medicine Lodge Treaty, a series of three agreements signed with the Southern Plains tribes, came only two years after the Little Arkansas Treaty. Although the terms of the first pact were never implemented, Medicine Lodge reduced the size of the non-existent reservations by ninety per cent, and banned the tribes from crossing to the north side of the Arkansas under penalty of being declared hostile, which meant they were fair game for the army. Not many settlers in the vicinity of Yanube City took comfort in the news.