The Pine Ridge Reservation is riddled with unemployment, arid lands, dreadful health statistics and short life-expectancies. However bad the conditions of the Pine Ridge Reservation seem to be, the nine tribes of the Great Sioux Nation continue to refuse the compensation from the federal government of $1.3 billion. According to the Sioux tribes, the confiscation of their land was illegal and invalid, therefore, the acceptance of the compensation would make the requisition of their land legal and just. The refusal of the compensation comes from the long standing feud caused by the government violating a treaty and seizing the Black Hills. The Black Hills has always been a spiritual and sacred land for tribes. The Sioux people understand that
