The U.S. Government Offered The Sioux More Than $1 Billion For The Black Hills – They Refused To Take The Money
They are a place of origin, in certain accounts.
They are a place where relationship between the human and the sacred is particularly accessible.
They are associated with specific ceremonies and specific forms of knowledge.
The practice of specific ceremonies in the Hills is not something that can simply be relocated — the relationship is with this specific place, not with a place of similar character.
When Lakota leaders and community members say that accepting money for the Black Hills would be a spiritual violation, they are not invoking sentiment or making a rhetorical point.
They are describing a specific understanding of what the Hills are and what it would mean to convert them into a transaction.
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