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.
Sud je utvrdio da, kada su Sijuksi preseljeni u rezervate i tri miliona hektara njihove zemlje postalo dostupno doseljenicima u potrazi za zlatom, uslovi drugog sporazuma iz Fort Laramija bili su prekršeni.