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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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 (New York: Norton, 2000), 186.</ref>  Others believe that the Sioux did not willingly choose to inhabit the Black Hills but were forced on to the land by military conquest of other tribes, proving that the Black Hills were not originally inhabited by the Sioux.<ref name="EB2">Elazar Barkan, ''The Guilt of Nations: Restitution and Negotiating Historical Injustices''(New York: Norton, 2000), 187.</ref>  Nonetheless, the 
[[Lakotas, ]], [[Cheyennes, ]], [[Arapahos, ]], [[Kiowas]] and [[Kiowa-Apaches]] believe the land to be sacred.<ref name="Linda">Linea Sundstrom, “Cross-Cultural Transference of the Sacred Geography of the Black Hills,” ''World Archaeology'' 28, no. 2 (Oct. 1996): 177.</ref>

== History ==
=== First encounters ===
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[[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]]