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Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Site

Medicine Lodge, Kansas
County of Barber.
National Register Number: 69000059
 Resource type: Site.
The threat level was Satisfactory in
2008.
Congressional District: KS-1 Certified Local Government: NO

Statement of Significance (as of designation - August 4, 1969):
Here, near the confluence of Medicine Lodge and Elm Creeks, members of a Peace Commission created by Congress met with about 5,000 Kiowa, Commanche, Plains Apache, Arapaho, and Southern Cheyenne Indians in October 1867. Under the terms of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, the first to include provisions aimed at "civilizing" the Indian, Plains Indians were to give up nomadic ways and relinquish claims to ancestral lands, in return for Federal economic and educational help.

Condition:
There are no known threats to the landmark.

There are no changes since the last report. (2004)


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