Image of Sitting Bull on an American Flag (Black Hills, SD)
With pride and persistence, Native communities have struggled to make the United States live up to its treaty obligations. Pahá Sápa the Lakota words translated Black Hills in English, is an area in what is now known as western South Dakota and eastern Wyoming. The Fort Laramie Treaty (1868) between the US Government, members of the Lakota Nation, members of the Dakota nation, and members of the Arapaho nation promised Pahá Sápa/the Black Hills would never be open to white settlement among other promises. However, after a gold rush began in the areas in the mid 1870s, the Lakota were forcibly removed by the US Government to allow for the settlement of the land by white miners and settlers.
