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

The congressional arithmetic has not shifted in ways that would make a Bradley Bill-style effort more likely to succeed.

And yet the claim persists.

The position persists.

The fund persists — growing, year by year, in the Treasury account where the judgment was deposited.

The persistence itself is historically significant.

The Sioux people have now refused the judgment for more than four decades.