English & Literature
why was the treaty that should have kept white settlers out of the black hills violated
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The United States Court of Claims on June 13, 1979, in a 5-2 majority, decided that the 1877 Act that seized the Black Hills from the Sioux was a violation of the Fifth Amendment.