Why did it take so long for Treasury to establish a tribal office?

'No matter how many times we told them, like all the ‘Great White Fathers’ before them, they thought they knew better.'

“I am deeply honored to visit the Rosebud Sioux Reservation today and to be joined by Chief Lynn Malerba, whom @POTUS will appoint as the next U.S. Treasurer,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen (left) wrote on Twitter on June 21. Malerba is on the right. (Twitter)

WASHINGTON — After years of inaction that has led to vast inequities, the U.S. Departme…