Do they have any legal right to stand on?
So Sioux me.
Not insofar as the tribal president asserts that the Rosebud Sioux reservation is a "sovereign nation." That simply isn't true, and Cyril Scott knows it isn't true. Pure bluster and posturing.
A basic principal of federal Indian law is that Congress has plenary jurisdiction over land set aside (i.e., reservations) for the use of Indians. In theory -- if not as a matter of practical political reality -- Congress could, by legislative act, abolish the Rosebud Sioux reservation entirely.
No...