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Why Do Native Americans Get Their Land Back
Are you religious? Do you think it is right to steal land away? Well the United States is not so innocent as they seem. For example, focusing on the Native Americans, their problem is that they have gotten their sacred land stolen from them. My first reason to why the Native Americans should have their land back is because in the United states Fast-forward. 1980: The longest-running court case in US history, the Sioux Nation versus the United States, was ruled upon by the US Supreme Court. The court determined that when the Sioux were resettled onto reservations and seven million acres of their land were opened up to prospectors and homesteaders, the terms of the second Fort Laramie Treaty had been violated. The court stated that the Black …show more content…
Still, American Indians have not really asked for reparations.” Which obviously states they don’t really think as native Americans as equal to us, like the real Americans. It is my sincere belief that the Native Americans would want their land back instead of money. The government was horrible back then and still is now. Some might argue and say that the native americans would prefer money but in my opinion I think it is the right choice to give them back their land.The bill, whose total price tag is $1.25 billion, passed by a vote of 257 to 156 and now goes to President Reagan, who has already promised to sign it and "close a sad chapter in American history."- Japanese article from team money ….This explains that one of the countries that got messed up by the united states got fixed up by paying with money and can maybe do the same with the native americans.However this isn’t true because in the ted talk video it said “ The court stated that the Black Hills were

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