U.S. House passes bill to preserve site of Wounded Knee massacre in 1890

A bill introduced by U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (RSD) that will preserve a section of the land where hundreds of Lakota Indians were massacred by the U.S. Army in 1890 passed the U.S. House by unanimous consent last Wednesday, Sept. 20. The Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act was introduced by Johnson in May after working for six months with the Cheyenne River and Oglala…