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The Black Hills, the United States' oldest mountain range, [11] is 125 miles (201 km) long and 65 miles (105 km) wide stretching across South Dakota and Wyoming. [12] The Black Hills derived its name from the black image that is produced by the "thick forest of pine and spruce trees" that covers the hills and was given the name by the Native Americans belonging to the Lakota (Sioux). [13]
Lakota Nation vs. United States is a 2022 documentary film which explores the 1876 Seizure of the Black Hills and the Indigenous Lakota people's fight to reclaim control of them. It was directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli and Executive Produced by Mark Ruffalo .
The Black Hills is an isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States. [3] Black Elk Peak, which rises to 7,242 feet (2,207 m), is the range's highest summit. [4]
The cause of the war was the desire of the US government to obtain ownership of the Black Hills. Gold had been discovered in the Black Hills, settlers began to encroach onto Native American lands, and the Sioux and the Cheyenne refused to cede ownership. Traditionally, American military and historians place the Lakota at the center of the story ...
Seizure of the Black Hills; Sheridan Lake (South Dakota) Sidney-Black Hills Trail; Silver City, South Dakota; Henry Weston Smith; South Dakota Highway 40;
Newly unsealed court documents show that the FBI and U.S. attorney's office in L.A. got the warrant for the raid by misleading the judge who approved it.