Show S indians win out washington in an opinion by jus tice holmes the supreme court of the united states has decided the case of the sisseton and wahpeton bands of sioux indians vs the united states favorably to the indians the indians claimed a large sum of money grow ing out of a treaty with them in 1851 under which the government agreed to pay them for fifty years an annuity of 73 COO in addition to cash paid at the time the payments were regularly made until the sioux out break in 1862 when payments were suspended |