The U.S. Government Offered The Sioux More Than $1 Billion For The Black Hills – They Refused To Take The Money
The Sioux Nation’s legal theory before the Supreme Court was grounded in the Fifth Amendment because that was the legal mechanism available.
The Court agreed that a taking had occurred and that compensation was required.
But the Court’s remedy was what the Fifth Amendment remedy always is: money.
The Sioux tribal governments did not want money.
They wanted the land.
From the moment the Supreme Court issued its decision, the response from tribal governments and from many Sioux community members was consistent: the money would not be collected.
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