his name was son one son giago. my job was to go around bars with him to help sell cocaine. on january third or fourth two thousand and seven asked me for the first time to help him take a bunch of young guys someplace. when we got there we got a call from the army that was i didn't know it was for the army i only found out there and then but those kids were for the army that. would look is it when you just know you you know it's a lot of rumors going around the neighborhood about these guys say they get the money straight out of the hands of the army people they deliver the kids to. the army buys them like merchandise for five year would give me four hundred six hundred or seven hundred per person leave me a mine just over there. a friend came looking for him at about five thirty pm and then fluently i asked him you know you're looking for cancer took a blond kid out of the small window on the second floor and came out with a standard somewhere in the park talk for a while and then left and that was the last time anyone saw him. look it is what they were saying in the bars

that is a problem says native american journalist tim giago, who has covered this story for more than 30 years. >> we have a lot of infighting and squabbling among our own people. there's been meetings taking place in the last two years on different reservations where a lot of people are coming together and sitting down and discussing all the prospects. >> reporter: theresa two bulls is a former oglala sioux president who helped organize the effort to restart the black hills talks following obama's 2008 election. she agrees with giago that there are serious divisions but says that the tribes are making progress. >> this is the closest we've gotten. believe me, it's hard to unite people, it's hard to stay positive but you have to for the i'm tired of this poverty. i'm tired of this rut were in. >> reporter: gonzalez says the tribes have formed a reparations alliance and are aiming to finalize a proposal to be submitted to congress by the end of the year. he hopes that proposal will give the sioux shared ownership of over one million acres of federal land within the black hills, along w