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Calendar No. 472
118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 118-208
WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE MEMORIAL
AND SACRED SITE ACT
AUGUST 1, 2024.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. SCHATZ, from the Committee on Indian Affairs,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 2088]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill
(S. 2088) to direct the Secretary of the Interior to complete all ac-
tions necessary for certain land to be held in restricted fee status
by the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and for other purposes, having consid-
ered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and
recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
S. 2088 would place 40 acres of the Wounded Knee massacre site,
currently owned in fee by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne
River Sioux Tribe, into restricted fee status.
BACKGROUND
In 1868, the United States entered into the Treaty of Fort Lar-
amie with the Sioux Nation.1 In exchange for ceding thousands of
acres of land, among other promises, to the United States, the
Treaty established the Great Sioux Reservation in western South
Dakota, which was set apart for the absolute and undisturbed use
and occupation as a permanent home for the Nation.2 The Res-
ervation was ultimately divided into six separate reservations in
115 Stat. 635 (Feb. 16, 1869) (Brule, Oglala, Miniconjou, Yanktonai, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet,
Cuthead, Two Kettle, Sans Arcs, and Santee Sioux bands and the Arapaho).
2Id., Arts. 2, 7.
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