The Sioux Tribe has refused monetary compensation because it demands land return

Evidence

Nothing in the statute explicitly forbids returning land to the Tribes. However, the commission awarded only monetary damages. The Sioux Tribe has never taken any of its award because it believes the return of land is what is required. — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 756

Categorization

• XREF: Directly crystallizes the land-vs-money distinction central to the reparations-as-accounting argument; connects to the claim that reparations must be proportionate to the wrong.
• SHARE: A striking fact about a tribe refusing a billion dollars because land, not money, is the actual remedy sought.