135th Wounded Knee Massacre Commemoration 2025 - SD Congressional Delegates and BIA Deputy Assistant Secretary - Indian Affairs discuss Wounded Knee Memorial and Sacred Sites Act: Majority Leader & US Senator Thune (SD), US Senator Rounds (SD) & US House of Representatives Johnson (SD).
Wounded Knee, S.D.—In mid-December, the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act, was signed into law.
"It has been almost 135 years to the day of the tragedy that unfolded at Wounded Knee and [now], the president signed my bill into law to preserve the land where hundreds of lives were lost," said U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.), who sponsored the bill. "I am grateful the Oglala and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes will be able to hold this land in perpetuity as a way to honor and memorialize the lost."
The law protects a portion of the Wounded Knee Massacre site in South Dako...
