The U.S. Government Offered The Sioux More Than $1 Billion For The Black Hills – They Refused To Take The Money
They refused it when the fund was $105 million.
They refused it when it reached $600 million.
They refused it when it crossed $1 billion.
They have maintained the refusal through multiple changes of tribal leadership, through periods of severe economic hardship, through political climates both favorable and hostile.
That sustained refusal is not stubbornness.
It is an expression of something more fundamental: a determination that the terms on which the Black Hills were taken, and the terms on which the United States has offered to settle the claim, are not terms that justice requires the Sioux people to accept.
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