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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 ===
The [[Black Hills]], being the United States’ oldest set of mountains, is {{convert|125|mi|km}} long and {{convert|65|mi|km}} wide stretching across South Dakota and Wyoming.<ref name="USFS">United States Forest Service, ''Black Hills National Forest'', http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/blackhills/faq/.</ref> The Black Hills derived its name from the black image that is produced by the “thick forest of pine and spruce trees” that covers the hills and was given the name by the Native AmericAns belongin(contracted; show full)*[http://www.crazyhorsememorial.org/ Official Website of the Crazy Horse Memorial]

[[Category:Black Hills]]
[[Category:Lakota]]
[[Category:Internal territorial disputes of the United States]]
[[Category:Native American history of South Dakota]]
[[Category:Native American history of Wyoming]]
[[Category:Aboriginal title in the United States]]