Camp Sheridan and Spotted Tail Agency

The removal the plaque dates to October 29, 1877, was settled in Washington. That September Sinte Gleska, Spotted Tail, went east with the Oglala leader Red Cloud in a delegation of ten Sicangu Lakota, the people the plaque calls Brules, ten Oglala and three Arapaho leaders to argue against moving their agencies to the Missouri River. President Rutherford B. Hayes compromised: they would winter at the Missouri site and choose permanent homes in the spring. The Sicangu wintered on Ponca Creek and in 1878 went to the Rosebud. Spotted Tail had already said, "We have been moved five times."

What the plaque says

Camp Sheridan and Spotted Tail Agency About ten miles north are the sites of Spotted Tail Agency and Camp Sheridan. Named for Brule Sioux Chief Spotted Tail, the agency was built in 1874 to supply treaty payments, including food, clothing, weapons, and utensils, under the terms of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. The army established Camp Sheridan nearby to protect the agency. A similar arrangement prevailed for the Oglala Sioux at Red Cloud Agency and Camp Robinson forty miles west. Spotted Tail Agency was generally quiet and peaceful throughout the Indian War of 1876-77. Crazy Horse surrendered there on September 4, 1877, after fleeing Red Cloud Agency. He was stabbed to death the next evening while being imprisoned at Camp Robinson, but his parents returned his body to Camp Sheridan for burial. On October 29, 1877, Spotted Tail's Brules were moved to present South Dakota. In 1878 they occupied Rosebud Agency, where they live today. Camp Sheridan, with a peak garrison of seven companies of soldiers, was abandoned on May 1, 1881. Nebraska State Historical Society

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of the Fur Trade — 15 mi
  A museum of what traders and Native nations exchanged, from the oldest known point blanket to a Lakota leader's silver cross, beside the rebuilt Bordeaux trading post east of Chadron.

More markers nearby

• Rushville — 12 mi
• Bordeaux Trading Post — 15 mi
• Chadron State Park — 16 mi
• Chadron Creek Trading Post — 17 mi