The United States House of Representatives this week passed a bill to help protect the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre, sheppard through the house by South Dakota Representative Dusty Johnson. The bill passed through the US house by unanimous consent.
The Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act, will apply restricted fee status of the site to the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Meaning, the site will be owned by those two tribes and in order to change ownership both tribes would need to agree and it would need approval from congress. The site memorializes those Native American men women and children killed by the United States 7th Cavalry in the winter of 1890.
Rep. Johnson spoke on the floor of the House about the legislation…
