The Lakotah drove the Blackfoot and Crow from their traditional lands in Minnesota and the Dakotas. The Black Hills, claimed by the Sioux as their “sacred ground” originally “belonged” to other tribes.
And let’s talk about the Chiricahua Apaches.
Reality in the Indian community wasn’t “Dances with Wolves.”
Exactly!
In the early 1700’s, the Cheyenne took the Black Hills from the Kiowa.
In 1776 the Lakota Sioux defeated the Cheyenne in war and took the Black Hills from them.
About 100 years later the US did the same to the Sioux.
Why does the first conquest confer legitimate title and the second doesn’t?