SIOUX FALLS, SD (AP) — Two American Indian tribes in South Dakota have joined forces to buy 40 acres across the Wounded Knee Nationwide Historic Landmark, the location of one of many deadliest massacres in US historical past.
The Oglala Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux stated the acquisition of the land on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation was an act of cooperation to make sure the realm was preserved as a sacred web site. Greater than 200 Native Individuals — together with youngsters and aged individuals — have been killed at Wounded Knee, in 1890. The bloodshed marked a seminal second within the frontier battles the US Military waged towards tribes.
“It’s a small step in the direction of therapeutic and actually ensuring that we as a tribe are defending our essential areas and property,” Oglala Sioux Tribe President Kevin Killer advised The Related Press.
The tribes agreed this week to petition the US Division of the Inside to take the land into belief on behalf of each tribes. The Oglala Sioux tribe can pay $255,000 and the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe can pay $245,000 for the location, Indian Nation Immediately reported. The title to the land shall be held within the title of the Oglala Sioux tribe.
Marlis Afraid of Hawk, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe whose grandfather, Albert Afraid of Hawk, survived the 1890 bloodbath as a 13-year-old boy, stated she was overjoyed to see the tribes take possession. She stated she carries on the oral custom of telling her grandchildren how her grandfather survived by fleeing by means of a ravine after a rifle held by a US calvary soldier failed to fireside at him.
As a member of a bunch that represents the descendants of the bloodbath’s survivors, she had initially raised objections to the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s buy of the land, however stated the joint buy made her really feel “honored and grateful.”
Members of the Oglala Sioux, Standing Rock Sioux, Rosebud Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes have been all at Wounded Knee, in 1890, Afraid of Hawk stated.
She hoped the location might be used for “training for the individuals who come and see the bloodbath web site.”
“They should know the historical past. It wants to return by means of the true, true Lakota individuals,” she stated.
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