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When you say "belongs to them" do you mean held in trust? Or they own it as private property?
Apparently, I need to make a clarification, as NPR's description of the situation is oversimplified: the Sioux claim the land but the Federal government in the past tried to force them to accept a settlement in compensation for their land being appropriated unlawfully in the late 19th century (the Sioux are disinterested in money for the land they consider sacred and religious in nature). Obama tried to reopen negotiations with the Oglalla Sioux during his presidency, but the Federal government is back to its old policies of trying to force the Sioux to settle after Trump was elected.
A U.N. commission on aboriginal peoples has recommended that the land be returned to the Sioux people. So it seems to me its clear the land is actually part of the Sioux nation but since Native Americans are US citizens and not stateless people, it is really a question of tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction more than the notion that the land is "private".
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