Rep. Dusty Johnson reintroduces bill to protect Wounded Knee Massacre site

In one of his first moves in the 119^th congress, South Dakota Representative Dusty Johnson reintroduced a bill to protect 40 acres at the Wounded Knee Massacre site on behalf of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. The tribes currently own the land where an estimated 200 to 300 Lakota people were killed near Wounded Knee Creek by US soldiers in December of 1890. If this bill became law, it would place that land in restricted-fee status, meaning it could not be sold, gifted or leased without approval by congress and both tribes.