The U.S. Government Offered The Sioux More Than $1 Billion For The Black Hills – They Refused To Take The Money
The argument is not that the money is insufficient.
The argument is that money is not what was taken and money is not what can make it right.
What The Simplified Version Always Leaves Out
The phrase “they refused a billion dollars” is both accurate and deeply incomplete.
It is accurate as a description of what has happened: the judgment fund exists, it has grown past a billion dollars by reasonable accounts, and the tribal nations have not collected it.
It is incomplete because it frames the story as being about a decision to refuse money — as if the central drama is the choice between wealth and principle.
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