The U.S. Government Offered The Sioux More Than $1 Billion For The Black Hills – They Refused To Take The Money
If the courts could only provide money, and money was not the answer, then the political process — the one that had enabled the taking in 1877 — would have to be engaged to produce a different result.
The vehicle was legislation.
The effort was sustained, serious, and ultimately unsuccessful.
The Bradley Bill — And Why It Failed
In 1985, Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey introduced a bill in the United States Senate.
The Sioux Nation Black Hills Act, as it was formally called, proposed to transfer approximately 1.3 to 1.6 million acres of federal land in the Black Hills region to the Sioux Nation.
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