Over the years one process after another has resulted in the land reduction of the Pine Ridge Reservation. A 1975 case, Cook v Parkinson, the US District Court of South Dakota ruled that Congress intended to “diminish” the borders of the reservation with the 1910 Bennett County Act. Tribal members have allotments within Bennett County, and these are considered part of the Pine Ridge Reservation. The state has jurisdiction over the other parts of Bennett County. OST still maintains that Bennett County is within the reservation borders. The history leading up to the Bennett County Act of 1910 resulted in...
Over the years one process after another has resulted in the land reduction of the Pine Ridge Reservation. A 1975 case, Cook v Parkinson, the US District Court of South Dakota ruled that Congress intended to “diminish” the borders of the reservation with the 1910 Bennett County Act. Tribal members have allotments within Bennett County, and these are considered part of the Pine Ridge Reservation. The state has jurisdiction over the other parts of Bennett County. OST still maintains that Bennett County is within the reservation borders. The history leading up to the Bennett County Act of 1910 resulted in...