Are Treaties the Supreme Law of the Land? -Franklin Avalos

This story was filed on July 26, 2013

Why Won’t the US Honor the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868? ​ The United States and the indigenous tribes of America have a long history of broken treaties. I always heard about, as you probably have, that the Black Hills were taken from the Lakota by the US breaking the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. […]read more

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