Legal Opinion
South Dakota v. Yankton Sioux Tribe
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 26, 1998No. 96-1581PublishedCited by 192 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
This ease presents the question whether, in an 1894 statute that ratified an agreement for the sale of surplus tribal lands, Congress diminished the boundaries of the Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. The reservation was established pursuant to an 1858 Treaty between the United States and the Yankton Sioux Tribe. Subsequently, under the Indian General Allotment Act, Act of Feb. 8, 1887, 24 Stat. 388, 25 U. S. C. §381 (Dawes Act), individual members of the Tribe received allotments of reservation land, and the Government then negotiated with the Tribe for the cession of the remaining,…
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