| Show SIOUX DEMAND MANY MILLIONS FROM U S tribal claims are based on treaty rights alerre S D millions ot dollars would come to the sioux of the dakotas if they can establish all their claims against the government in the action now before the court of claims on the showings they make this action started on the demand of the sioux for compensation tar the black hills a territory which they allege was taken from them in viola alon of treaty rights and on the signatures of the heads of R few bands of the sioux instead of a general agreement the value they put upon this tract Is with interest from 1876 go back to 1851 besides the claim for the black the action carries with it claims which have been made by the sioux under different treaty regulation dating back to 1851 with interest running back that far on some ft the claims the direct claims without interest amount to approximately for the general tribal funds and approximately for various bands and the interest charge will more than double this the government will present offsets which will wipe out a portion of this claim and just how much ever will come to the indians Is a problem these claims are the result of a demand made by the sioux for pay for the black mils section when the issue came up an agreement was reached by which they were to gather up all the old claims they made and put them into one action claims for hay several claims are made for hun dred thousand dollars each for hay cut upon the reservations for forage for teams used by the early military expeditions in the upper missouri river country and another good sized bill for wood cut for building forts and for fuel by these expeditions still another item Is an estimated amount which should have been spent for education of the roving tribes between the years and 1893 under a treaty of then there Is a charge tor farming implements and teams which were to be supplied un der another treaty of the distant past estimating the number of sioux who were ready and willing to farm but could not do so on account of lack of the proper equipment |
