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03/11/22 9:04 PM

#405352 RE: zab #405339

Once again we are talking about soiux lands, and the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, that was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1980


Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)

In exchange, the U.S. Government established the Great Sioux Reservation, consisting of a large portion of the western half of what is now the state of South Dakota, including the Black Hills, which are sacred to the Sioux people.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/fort-laramie-treaty


I'm not getting your point here. The Supreme Court (1980) ruled that the U.S. Government owed the Sioux Tribe $17.1 million + %5 interest from 1877, for taking the land of the Black Hills. Their reservation was held as other tribal reservations, "In Trust of U.S. Government"

UNITED STATES v. SIOUX NATION OF INDIANS
United States Supreme Court
UNITED STATES v. SIOUX NATION OF INDIANS(1980)


In sum, we conclude that the legal analysis and factual findings of the Court of Claims fully support its conclusion that the terms of the 1877 Act did not effect "a mere change in the form of investment of Indian tribal property." Lone [448 U.S. 371, 424] Wolf v. Hitchcock, 187 U.S., at 568 . Rather, the 1877 Act effected a taking of tribal property, property which had been set aside for the exclusive occupation of the Sioux by the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. That taking implied an obligation on the part of the Government to make just compensation to the Sioux Nation, and that obligation, including an award of interest, must now, at last, be paid.
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/448/371.html#:~:text=Under%20the%20Fort%20Laramie%20Treaty%20of%201868%2C%20the,least%20three-fourths%20of%20the%20adult%20male%20Sioux%20population.