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[[Image:Black_hills_from_space.jpg|frame|The Black Hills, [[South Dakota]], [[United States]] image from space.]]'''The Black Hills Land Claim''' is an ongoing land dispute between Native Americans from the Sioux nation and the United States Federal Government. 
== Background == 
=== Geography === 
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Furthermore, the two lawyers continued to work with the government to provide the tribe with just compensation for violating the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. In September of 1979, Sonosky and Lazarus offered the tribe $44million as a settlement for the violation in 1868, but were met with hostility. <ref name="L377"> Lazarus, ''Black Hills/White Justice'', 377.</ref>  

On October 17, 1979 Solic
itor General Wade McCree of the Justice Department sent an appeal to the United States Supreme Court over the initial ruling by the Court of Claims and on November 21, 1979 the Supreme Court set a date to review the claim and on December 10, the appeal was granted. <ref name="L379"> Lazarus, ''Black Hills/White Justice'', 378-379.</ref>  

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*[http://www.aktalakota.org/ Akta Lakota Museum and Cultural Center Website]
*[http://www.nps.gov/archive/wica/History_of_the_Black_Hills.htm National Park Website: History of the Black Hills]
*[http://www.crazyhorsememorial.org/ Official Website of the Crazy Horse Memorial]

[[Category:Black Hills]]
[[Category:Lakota]]
[[Category:Territorial disputes of the United States]]
[[Category:Internal territorial disputes of the United States]]