I do believe that the Tohono O’ odham have been adequately compensated for their losses by the United States for many different reasons. This event happened long ago and the fact that they were even compensated means a lot, because many things in our history went as a loss and were never compensated for. In this particular even the tribe had their land taken away from them during what many known as The Gadsden Purchase. This was a huge loss for them and they struggled for many years to try and recover. Although the United States did take these things away from them, later in time they did what was right and tried their best to give proper compensation for the natives. The U.S has made water funds for them, and has also given them more land that was taken away from them so long ago. They have given them more water rights which many people do not realize that this day in age water and land is still just as important, if not more. In my opinion they have been properly treated for what happened in the past, and it is shocking to me that it even happened. Imagine if everything that was taken from areas in our past had to be compensated it would be a total disaster of things because that is just the way our history was, its how things happened. I feel as though they should be extremely thankful for their compensation and happy about it.
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