Johnson re-introduces bill to protect land at Wounded Knee Massacre in Black Hills

U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) re-introduced the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act to preserve a section of the land where hundreds of Lakota Indians were massacred by the U.S. Army. This bill passed the House with unanimous support last Congress, but was not signed into law.“I’m grateful to the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe for their ...

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