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= Yellow_Hawk =
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Introduction
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Chief Yellow Hawk ('also known as Ci-tan-gi') was a leader of the Sans
Arc Lakota (Itazipco) a sub-group of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe.
In 1867 Yellow Hawk was a member of the delegation of Native American
representatives who signed the Medicine Lodge Treaty and in 1868, the
Treaty of Fort Laramie, protecting tribal lands from further seizure
and encroachment by the United States Government. During the Lewis and
Clark Expedition, Yellow Hawk was a recipient of a Jefferson Peace
Medal a later variety of Indian Peace Medals.
Personal life
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Yellow Hawk married a non-Native American woman, Julia Deloria (also
known as 'Wasicuwin') and had two sons Solomon Yellow Hawk
(1847-1930), and Steven Yellow Hawk (1842-1909). Deloria, an
Anglo-American settler, was found as a child by the family of Yellow
Hawk when her village was destroyed.
<strong>Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)</strong>
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From 1778 to 1871, approximately 370 treaties with Native Americans
were ratified by the United States. The Treaty of Fort Laramie—in
which the Sioux agreed to settle within the Black Hills reservation in
the Dakota Territory—was established in the spring of 1868 at Fort
Laramie, in the Wyoming Territory. Yellow Hawk was one of signers of
the treaty guaranteeing to the Lakota ownership of the Black Hills,
and further land and hunting rights in South Dakota, Wyoming, and
Montana.
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