The resolution calls for the repeal of the Sioux-Dakota Removal Act, highlighting the historical injustices faced by the Dakota, Anishinaabe, and Ho-Chunk Native Americans following the establishment of Minnesota in 1858. It outlines the series of events leading to conflict between the Dakota tribes and settlers, including treaty violations, starvation, and military intervention that resulted in the largest mass execution in U.S. history. The resolution emphasizes that subsequent Congressional acts in 1863 not only annulled previous treaties but also forcibly removed the Dakota tribes from their ancestral lands, leading to their current status as members of federally recognized tribes in neighboring states.

The resolution seeks to amend the 1863 Act to formally remove the banishment of the affected tribes from their homelands while preserving existing property rights and land allocations established through the removal acts. It expresses the need for Congress to address the obsolescence and offensive nature of these laws, and it mandates that copies of the resolution be sent to key federal officials and congressional delegations from South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, and Minnesota.