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

The money, once distributed, would be gone.

The land would still not be back.

This is not an argument that money is worthless.

It is an argument about the specific nature of what was taken and what restoration, as opposed to compensation, would actually require.

The Resolution That Has Not Come — And What It Would Take

Any realistic assessment of the Black Hills dispute requires honesty about the gap between what justice would demand and what the political system has shown itself willing to provide.