In 1985, the United States pays $105 million to the Sioux of South Dakota.

June 15, 1985 No Comments

Reference: Congressmember John Conyers Jr. with Jo Ann Nichols Watson, Reparations: An Idea Whose Time Has Come,in Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations(ed. Raymond A. Winbush, PhD 2003) at p. 18.

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In 1985, the United States pays $105 million to the Sioux of South Dakota.

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