PLAN OF THE DAY:
HAVE OUT: Computer, Google ClassroomWHY?
WHY? ID and ANALYZE how geography influenced the U.S. and the SPRITE-G of NATIVE AMERICANS/AMERICAN INDIANS
UNITED STATES V. SIOUX NATION OF INDIANS
In United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians (1980), the U.S. Supreme Court held that an 1877 act of Congress, by which the United States wrested control of the Black Hills of South Dakota from the Sioux Indian Nation, constituted a "taking" of property under the Fifth Amendment, giving rise to an obligation to fairly compensate the Sioux. The Court affirmed a prior decision of the court of claims, which had awarded the Sioux $17.1 million for the taking of the Black Hills, and further held that the tribe was entitled to interest on that amount from 1877. By the late 1990s, the amount due the Sioux had risen to more than $600 million–a payment that the tribe still refuses to accept, choosing instead to continue to seek the return of the land itself.
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