American Indians are embroiled in a $137bn lawsuit with the US Government over land royalties. The saga, which has been going on for seven years, rests on a judge’s decision, which is expected shortly.
The lawsuit centres on huge tracts of land west of the Mississippi
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), an arm of the US Department of the Interior, is being sued in a class action on behalf of 280,000 American Indians.
The dispute dates back to the 1887 Dawes Act, which seized Indian land - much of it rich in natural resources - and gave it to white-owned companies to exploit.
In 1492 it is estimated there were six million Indians in the territory of what became the United States. By 1900, decimated by disease, starvation and war, that number had fallen to 237,000.
Speaking from a sun dance ceremony in Montana, Mr Bellecourt told BBC News Online: "We have been the victims of an American holocaust.
“They took our land away - sacred land, like the Black Hills (in South Dakota) - and now we find out they have stolen our money.”
US Government sued for Stolen Land!
Similar to the occupying Jews in palestine, America has blood on its hands aswel as stealing other peoples lands then they complain why people hate them!