Sioux Tribe of Indians v. United States

It is the position of the plaintiff that under the stipulation of Art. 10 of the 1868 Treaty with the Sioux Tribe of Indians the United States was obligated to furnish one cow and a pair of oxen to each and every family in the Sioux Tribe which removed to the reservation at any time and which, at any time thereafter, commenced to farm. Based on statistics from the report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1886 indicating that a total of 4,549 Indian families at the various agencies (including the Fort Peck Agency, the Indians which the defendant insists are not parties to this action)…