Legal Opinion
United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 30, 1980No. 79-639PublishedCited by 336 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
This case concerns the Black Hills of South Dakota, the Great Sioux Reservation, and a colorful, and in many respects tragic, chapter in the history of the Nation’s West. Although the litigation comes down to a claim of interest since 1877 on an award of over $17 million, it is necessary, in order to understand the controversy, to review at some length the chronology of the case and its factual setting.
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For over a century now the Sioux Nation has claimed that the United States unlawfully abrogated the Fort Laramie Treaty of April 29, 1868, 15 Stat. 635, in Art. II of which the United States…
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