<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524546" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Black Hills: Sacred Tribal Land</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Behold great and noble Government <br>Constitutional United States of America <br>gave the land to the tribe in perpetuity<br>gave back that which was already<br>theirs sacred tribal land of ancestors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that which was most precious birthright<br>which could not be bought owned sold<br>bestowed in ceremony upon parchment<br>but the white man spoke with fork tongue<br>broke treaty for yellow flakes of lust dirt</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1868 confirmed <br>Lakota Sioux ownership of the Black Hills<br>to Cheyenne and Lakota these Black Hills<br>an island of trees in a sea of grass prairie<br>is axis mundi the sacred center of the world </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Major General George Armstrong Custer <br>of 7th US Cavalry fame led an expedition <br>into sacred Black Hills in1874 Yellow Hair <br>discovered gold in French Creek gold fever <br>locusts thousands of miners swept into Hills</div><div style="margin:10px 0">gold rush1875–1878 sparks Black Hills War <br>the last major Indian War on the Great Plains<br>Battles Powder River, Rosebud, Little Bighorn<br>Yellow Hair Custer 270 men killed 5 cavalry <br>companies were annihilated without survivors</div><div style="margin:10px 0">in violation of the Treaty of Fort Laramie the <br>United States steals the Black Hills in 1876<br>after defeating the Cheyenne Lakota Arapaho <br>gold silver mines strike pay dirt Iron Horse comes<br>post Bighorn defeat army seizes horses weapons</div><div style="margin:10px 0">of friendly agency Indians; January 1877 Crazy <br>Horse fights on at the Battle of Wolf Mountain <br>but shame surrenders follow two-thirds of all <br>Lakota; had settled at Indian agencies accepted <br>rations accepted subsistence life and did not fight</div><div style="margin:10px 0">but the Lakota never accepted the validity of the <br>United States appropriation of the Black Hills and <br>continue to try to reclaim their property; July 1980<br>United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians; verdict <br>Supreme Stealing Court of the United States ruled </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the Black Hills were illegally stolen; payment for <br>inconvenience caused? An offer of initial offering <br>price be paid; Lakota refused the settlement; plus <br>interest; claiming accepting bribe settlement would <br>validate government theft; stolen sacred tribal land.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> <br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524546" data-title="Black Hills: Sacred Tribal Land de Terence George Craddock" data-description="Behold great and noble Government Constitutional United States of America gave the land to the tribe in perpetuity gave back that which was already theirs sacred tribal land of ancestors that which was most precious birthright which could not b..."></div> </div> </div>

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