The U.S. Government Offered The Sioux More Than $1 Billion For The Black Hills – They Refused To Take The Money
The Bradley Bill efforts of the mid-1980s, discussed below, illustrated this clearly.
It also matters because the story of the Black Hills dispute is sometimes told in ways that flatten the Sioux nations into a single, monolithic actor — as if a single decision-maker had, at a single moment, made a single choice to refuse a single offer.
The reality is considerably more complex.
Multiple nations, with their own governance processes and their own internal debates, have maintained a broadly consistent position over more than four decades through those governance processes.
That consistency, achieved across multiple sovereign nations through democratic processes within each nation, is itself remarkable.
What The Land Means Beyond The Legal Claim
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