Many of the Lakotas, including Crazy Horse of the Oglalas, Sitting Bull of the Hunkpapas, and the people who looked to them for leadership, stayed far from the agencies. They stayed in the Powder River Country of southern Montana and what is now northern Wyoming, because the treaty vaguely allowed them to stay there. But in 1874 gold was discovered in northeastern Wyoming. The Lakota tribes were given six years to move out before the white gold miners moved in. According to the treaty it was the army's job to keep the miners out of the hills because it was considered a very holy land but they decided they couldn’t do that. The government approached them about selling the land most of the tribe leaders except Crazy Horse were for selling the
