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

And the system, at that point, had done what it could do within its own logic.

The gap that remains is the gap between what the legal system can provide and what the claim actually demands.

No court can order Congress to return land.

No court can legislate a solution.

The legal victory of 1980 exhausted what the judicial process had to offer.

What remained — and what remains — requires a political solution, and political solutions require political will.