Proposed bill would protect ‘sacred ground’

CRST co-owns site of 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee

Federal legislation introduced last Tuesday, May 16, by Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) would protect an area of land where hundreds of Lakota men, women and children were massacred by the U.S. Army at Wounded Knee in 1890.

The 40-acre area was purchased in September 2022 by the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. A covenant signed by t…