re: #27 Jay C

Gee, you would think that Ted Cruz would be happy to get rid of it….

Though the compounded interest on that 60 guilders might add up to a non-trivial amount after 396 years….

For comparison, Native Americans are entitled to the Black Hills of South Dakota. There’s about $1 billion in escrow waiting for them, but the Native Americans want the land, not the money.

Besides, the land and mineral assets are worth far more than $1 billion with interest.

The gold from the Lead mine district alone was worth about $60 billion. So the US was lowballing them even while admitting they were wrong and expropriated land belonging to Native Americans because gold was found there.