The U.S. Government Offered The Sioux More Than $1 Billion For The Black Hills – They Refused To Take The Money

The legal system, working within its own logic, had translated the taking of the Black Hills into a monetary judgment.

The tribal nations, working within their own understanding of what the Hills are, declined to accept that translation.

The Hollow Victory Of 1980 — And The Deeper Question It Left Open

The Supreme Court decision in United States v.

Sioux Nation of Indians was widely described as a landmark in American Indian law.

In several respects, it was.