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TIL, the Great Sioux Nation, consisting of nine tribes, lost the Black Hills, SD when the US violated a treaty. In 1980, the Supreme Court agreed, and set $105M in funds aside as compensation. The Sioux did not accept it, preferring the land instead. There is now ~$2B in that fund as of 2019.


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