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Tribal land means about 40 acres at Wounded Knee

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete all actions necessary for certain land to be held in restricted fee status by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and for other purposes, section 2, Sec. 2. Written by .

Tribal land means about 40 acres at Wounded Knee

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What the document says

“The term ``Tribal land'' means the approximately 40 acres (including the surface and subsurface estate, and mineral estate, and any and all improvements, structures, and personal property on those acres) on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Oglala Lakota County, at Rural County Road 4, Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and generally depicted as ``Area of Interest'' on the map entitled ``Wounded Knee Sacred Site and Memorial Land'' and dated October 26, 2022”

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete all actions necessary for certain land to be held in restricted fee status by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and for other purposes, Sec. 2

Paragraph (3). It fixes what the Act operates on: approximately 40 acres on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, including surface, subsurface and mineral estate and everything built or standing on it. The bounds are set by a map dated October 26, 2022, which the Act names but does not reproduce. The paragraph closes by stating that the acreage is a segment of the December 29, 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre site.

What the document actually says

“The term ``Tribal land'' means the approximately 40 acres (including the surface and subsurface estate, and mineral estate, and any and all improvements, structures, and personal property on those acres) on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Oglala Lakota County, at Rural County Road 4, Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and generally depicted as ``Area of Interest'' on the map entitled ``Wounded Knee Sacred Site and Memorial Land'' and dated October 26, 2022”

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete all actions necessary for certain land to be held in restricted fee status by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and for other purposes, Sec. 2
That sentence, in plain words

The land is about 40 acres at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. It sits on the Pine Ridge land. It takes in what is under the ground and what is built on it. A map from October 2022 shows it.

What this is about

The law says the land is part of the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890. The law points to a map to fix the bounds.

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  1. The document itself

    Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act, Public Law 119-61, sec. 2, 139 Stat. 1977 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ61/html/PLAW-119publ61.htm

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    “Tribal land means about 40 acres at Wounded Knee,” Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act, section 2, Sec. 2. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/wounded-knee-massacre-memorial-sacred-site-act/proposal/sec02-tribal-land-defined/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

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