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1877, "Sell or Starve", p2

the Sioux would be considered binding unless 3/4th majority of the Sioux approved the measures, a technicality that the Moneypenny Commission dispensed with completely.

Following the ratification of this treaty, the Sioux were repopulated on smaller reservation lands. The armed bands of warriors were dealt with one by one by the US troops, and upon surrender or defeat all arms and horses were seized and then sold, leaving the Sioux little recourse but to return to the reservation and to try to assimilate or cope as best they could. The old way of life for the Sioux Nation was gone forever.

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