Red Cloud Agency
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The Red Cloud Agency was an indian agency for the Oglala Lakota existing from 1868 - 1878.
As stipulated in the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, Indian agencies were constructed for the various Lakota tribes, forerunners to the modern Indian reservations. For the Oglala Lakota, the Red Cloud Agency was established in 1871 on the Platte River in Wyoming Territory. In August 1873, the agency was moved to northwestern Nebraska near the present town of Crawford. Troops were brought to the agency the following year after the shooting of the agency clerk. The military encampment was named Camp Robinson (later known as Fort Robinson). The Red Cloud Agency was the center of much activity during the Great Sioux War of 1876-77, culminating in the surrender of Crazy Horse in May 1877. The agency was moved to the Missouri River in October 1877. The following year, the agency was relocated to southern South Dakota and renamed the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
