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 American tribes following the establishment of Minnesota in 1858. It outlines the series of events leading to conflict in 1862, including settler encroachment, delayed treaty payments, and subsequent starvation among the Dakota people. The resolution notes the tragic consequences of this conflict, including the largest mass execution in U.S. history, and the subsequent acts of Congress that forcibly removed the Dakota tribes from their ancestral lands and annulled their treaties.

The resolution seeks to amend the 1863 Act to formally recognize the rights of the displaced tribes and remove the banishment from their ancestral homelands, while ensuring that existing property rights and land allocations to tribes remain unaffected. It emphasizes the continued relevance of these issues for the descendants of the displaced tribes, who are now members of federally recognized tribes in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Nebraska. The resolution concludes with a directive to transmit copies to key federal officials and congressional delegations from the affected states.