The U.S. Government Offered The Sioux More Than $1 Billion For The Black Hills – They Refused To Take The Money
Deloria’s perspective was that the legal victory of 1980 was a kind of trap: it confirmed the wrong in a way that produced an outcome — a growing fund that was never supposed to be collected — rather than a resolution.
The scholarly debate reflects the genuine difficulty of the underlying situation.
There may have been no path, through the legal system, to the remedy that would actually satisfy the claim.
The Sioux had to use the tools available to them.
The tools available produced the result they produced.
The result is a billion-dollar fund that sits uncollected and a land claim that remains unresolved.
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