The court determined that when the Sioux were resettled onto reservations and seven million acres of their land were opened up to prospectors and homesteaders, the terms of the second Fort Laramie Treaty had been violated.
Sodišče je odločilo,  da ko so Siouxe premestili v rezervate, in je bilo sedem milijonov arov njihove zemlje dostopne rudosledcem in naseljevalcem, so bili pogoji drugega sporazuma pri Fort Laramie kršeni.