On this date in 1915, the Sioux County Pioneer reported on a meeting at Fort Yates. The ten members of the permanent committee representing the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation gathered to discuss the matter of Paha Sapa, the Black Hills. The Council considered a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Council at Pine Ridge, South Dakota. The Commissioner suggested that members of the nine nations of the Sioux should prepare a legal argument regarding the $7 million claim that the