LETTER: Eminent domain likened to broken treaties

It was 155 years ago when the United States signed the Black Hills Treaty of 1868 with the Sioux, indigenous Americans living in the Black Hills since times immemorial. But, backed by the U.S. Army, or hired guns, the land was taken, the treaty broken and the land stolen. U.S. history is littered with treaties with the indigenous peoples of this contine…