Many locals wonder why the land doesn't belong to the tribe already - a view echoed in a recent New York Times opinion piece by the youngest leader among the Sioux family in recent memory, Joseph Brings Plenty.
"Ronald Dworkin was one of the few genuine giants of legal philosophy, combining great learning with profound insight in a way that won't soon be seen again, " said Laurence Tribe, a constitutional-law professor at Harvard Law School.