1. 1851 Treaty: The treaty was an agreement between nine more or less independent parties: it created set territories between the tribes and the government. The United States acknowledged that all the land covered by the treaty was Indian territory and did not claim any part of it. The boundaries agreed to in the Fort Laramie treaty of 1851 would be used to settle a number of claims cases in the 20th century. The treaty should also "make an effective and lasting peace" among the eight tribes, each of them often at odds with a number of the others.
2. 1868 Treaty: The treaty was divided into 17 articles. It established the Great Sioux Reservation including ownership of the Black Hills, and set aside additional lands as "unceded Indian territory" in areas of South Dakota, Wyoming, and Nebraska, and possibly Montana.