President Donald Trump signed the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act on December 18, placing 40 acres currently owned by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation into restricted fee status. The reservation was allotted in 1889, and the land was eventually sold to non-Indian owners, and they built and operated a trading post and museum at the site for many decades. South Dakota’s congressional leaders all sponsored the bill, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe celebrate the designation.
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