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.
法院裁決，蘇人重歸保留地時， 同時將七百萬英畝土地 開放給探礦者和自耕農， 違反了第二次《拉勒米堡條約》 的條款。