Articles XIII through XV
The government agreed to furnish the tribes with a "physician, teachers, carpenter, miller, engineer, farmer, and blacksmiths".
The government agreed to provide $100 in prizes for those who "in the judgment of the agent may grow the most valuable crops for the respective year." As part of this, the government agreed to close the forts associated with the Bozeman Trail. Article 16 did not however, address issues related to important hunting grounds north and northwest of the reservation. The US had bought the eastern part of the Republican Fork from the Pawnee in 1833. The Pawnee held a treaty right to hunt in their ceded territory. Although the commissioners signed the document on April 29 along with the Brulé, the party broke up in May, with only two remaining at Fort Laramie to conclude talks there, before traveling up the Missouri River to gather additional signatures from tribes elsewhere.
Signatories
Notable signatories presented in the order they signed are as follows. Two exceptions are included. Henderson was a commissioner, but did not sign the treaty. Red Cloud was among the last to sign, but is listed here out-of-order along with the other Oglala.
Commissioners
- Nathaniel Green Taylor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs According to the same source, Sherman was also recalled to Washington D.C. the following April to testify in the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
- Christopher C. Augur, Brevet Major General, and commander of the Department of the Platte
- American Horse
- Blue Horse
- Red Cloud