Sporadic outbursts of fighting between U.S. troops and Plains people were characterized by brutal episodes. Following these wars, another round of treaties attempted to isolate the Native Americans of the Plains on smaller reservations with promises of government support to be provided by federal agents. However, gold miners refused to stay off Native Americans' lands if gold was to be found on them, as indeed it was in the Dakota's Black Hills. Soon, minor chiefs not involved in the treaty-making and younger warriors denounced the treaties and tried to return to ancestral lands



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