The stand can be principled and the obstacles can be real.

The question of what the right outcome is — what justice would actually look like — is not answered by pointing to either the intractability of the obstacle or the depth of the principle.

It requires grappling with both.

The Specific Harm — What The Black Hills Dispute Actually Cost

The century-and-a-half between 1877 and the present has not been a period of suspended animation for the Sioux nations.

It has been a period of real consequence — of impoverishment, displacement, and constraint that flows, in direct ways, from the taking of the Black Hills and the breaking of the treaty that protected them.