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 zaključio da, kada su Siouxi preseljeni u rezervate i 2.832.799,495 hektara njihove zemlje bilo je otvoreno za istražitelje i naseljenike, uslovi drugog sporazuma iz Fort Laramie su prekšeni.