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Wednesday, November 30, 2016

The Dakota Access Pipeline and Lands Owned by Native Americans (1851 Treaty)

Article Title: 1851 Dakota Land Cession Treaties
Snippet of Article: "...in exchange for $3,750,000 (estimated at 12 cents per acre), to be paid over decades. Little of the payment was received. The treaty stipulated that they would retain a strip of land 20 miles wide, spanning the Minnesota River; this article was unilaterally removed by the U.S. Senate, but later reinstated by legislation...."


Source: treatiesmatter.org

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