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Originally Posted by GP_Matt
Did anyone actually read the story? I admit I didn't read your link, but have been following the case a bit.
The US government has been holding the land in trust for the Natives. It is their land and the government was leasing it out and selling mineral rights without compensating the landowners (Natives). This has nothing to do with long past massacres, handouts or anything else.
This settlement didn't even include an accounting of how much money was collected by the government. The government decided it was better to pay out 3.4 billion than to calculate how much money they had stolen.
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Agreed, it's not directly related, but is this going to be a precdent? How much land was "appropriated" from natives and exploited by those who did commit mass atrocities?