By the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851,
A) Indian tribes in the Northwest Territory agreed to allow American migrants moving West free passage across their tribal lands.
B) all of the Indian tribes of the Great Plains agreed to cede their ancestral lands to the United States but were allowed to live on that land in perpetuity.
C) southwestern Indian tribes agreed to forgo any further allotments from the federal government in return for an expansion of their tribal boundaries.
D) eight northern Plains tribes agreed to respect tribal boundaries established by the United States government and to allow the government to build roads and forts within those boundaries.

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The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 was an attempt by the United States government to negotiate peace between eight northern Plains Indian tribes and white settlers moving westward. The treaty established specific boundaries for each tribe's land and required them to respect each other's territorial sovereignty. It also allowed the United States government to establish roads and forts within these territories. However, the treaty was not entirely successful in preventing conflict between settlers and Indian tribes, and it was eventually superseded by later treaties and laws that further eroded Indian land rights.