SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — American Indian activist and actor Russell Means has gone to court in South Dakota over a Black Hills fishing protest.
Prosecutors charged Means for fishing without a license after an August protest at South Dakota's Sheridan Lake.
Means responded by filing a federal lawsuit in Rapid City, asking for a preliminary injunction.
He argues that the charge is a violation of the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty.
Means makes the same argument about his January citation for driving with a suspended license in Tripp County, S.D.
Under the treaty, Means says the Sioux did not surrender their hunting, fishing and traveling privileges in western South Dakota to the federal government.