But so is your statement since everything I have read about German War repration payments to the Jews went to the state of Israel not to individual families - I am not to far off. That those reprations ended oh about 20 years ago means that the fathers paid for thier sins
Try again Red , they started up again in '98 as a result of reunification , also not all payments went to the State of Israel , they also went to the remaining communities in Europe . Austria has recently been making restitution as well , though they are experiencing some dificulties as the Nazis were quite thorough bastards when it came to exterminating people so they are having trouble finding any descendants .

Forcing the government to give back lands to the natives who it was stolen from might be more in line - which is way as Aenlic pointed out the Souix have refused to take the money - they want their land back.
I thought that was me , I must have missed Aelnics' post on the Supreme court ruling . Anyway as for the cash settlement offered , it was a bit of a piss take wasn't it , land values at 120 year old prices without the added value that the mineral deposits would have bought , and only simple interest at 5% , that untouched fund has since grown in the few years that it was awarded , with compound interest to over $500 million , I wonder how big the award would have been with 120+ years of compound interest ?