Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
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 .
Learned something new - I thought the reprations were all done and only paid to the state of Israel. (the Israel part really should of stated mostly Israel - because it was my understanding that small payments went to other nations - but the sources I have read always stated that the reprations for the Jews went mostly to the state of Israel.


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 ?
It was you - I just got finished typing a response to Aenlic also. Must of mixed you two together. Happens when one is at work and typing on the internet at the same time.

Yes indeed if the Land was given back it would open up a whole kettle of worms about royalities and payments concerning things taken from the land from 1876 to present. At 120+ years of compound interest would make multi - millioniares of all the Souix nation's citizens.