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So the Great Sioux Nation exulted this summer when a long-sought parcel in the mountains called Pe' Sla by the Lakota was put up for sale and a Sioux bid was accepted by the family that had controlled the land since 1876.
But now, anxiety has replaced optimism as more than a half-dozen Sioux tribes, which include some of the nation's poorest people, race to come up with the $9 million purchase price before the deadline next month.
Not only poverty stands in the way, but also the charged history: Many Sioux ask why they should have to pay for land that belongs to them, given numerous treaties broken by the United States and a landmark federal court decision in 1979 that called the government's seizure of the Black Hills one of the most dishonorable acts in American history.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20121006/NEWS/710059937/1707
The money for this land ought to be coughed up by The Bureau of Indian Affairs, or whatever the Agency is calling itself lately.
tama
(9,137 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)xchrom
(108,903 posts)annabanana
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http://protectpesla.org/note: tax deductable
Loudly
(2,436 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)and at what interest rate?
Do we really need banks to take another bite?
Loudly
(2,436 posts)The Tribes have been reluctant to take the money because they want the land back.
Heck, BIA should probably just release 9 million of it to close on this purchase.
Looks like it can be done without jeapordizing the Tribes' present rejection of the rest of the money.
Berserker
(3,419 posts)The Sioux Nation band together and camp on the land that they already own. What will the white man do put up a foreclosure sign or send some Custer wannabe fucker in to take it back?
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)hfojvt
(37,573 posts)but they refuse to take it.
Still, I have to wonder when the Sioux then will give back the land they stole from the Crows.
"Although the Sioux were hereditary enemies of the Crows and had
driven them from their rich hunting grounds,..." Bury my heart at Wounded Knee p. 133
And I guess that the Black Hills "belongs" to the Sioux. After all, they stole it fair and square from the Kiowas. "South of the Kansas-Nebraska buffalo ranges were the Kiowas. Some of the older Kiowas could remember the Black Hills, but the tribe had been pushed southward before the combined power of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho." Bury my heart at wounded knee p. 10