return for the loss of their land they had received nothing. Crook had not been able to deliver on his promises, and because settlers didn’t snap up Sioux acreage as government agents had said they would, its value plummeted. Only land that sold in the first three years would bring in $1.25 an acre; for the next two years it would be 75 cents an acre, and then it would drop to 50 cents an acre, the same low price that the Sioux had utterly rejected when the Pratt Commission had tried to get them to sell in 1888.
