Oglala Sioux Tribe faces ultimatum on sale of massacre site
May 1, 2013 in The Daily Republic
The assessed value of the property: less than $14,000. The seller’s asking price: $4.9 million.
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Activists plan protest if Wounded Knee land sold
April 28, 2013 in The Daily Republic
RAPID CITY (AP) Native American activists have vowed to protest if someone buys and tries to develop a piece of land at the Wounded Knee National Historic landmark in western South Dakota.
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Author to present book on Wounded Knee occupation
April 26, 2013 in The Daily Republic
SIOUX FALLS (AP) Forty years after the 71-day occupation at Wounded Knee, there is still lots of pain and many questions about what truly happened, according to an author of a new book examining the occupation and the last meeting between all the major players.
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3 offers for Wounded Knee land
April 16, 2013 in The Daily Republic
Seller giving Oglala Sioux Tribe until May 1 to purchase property; tribe says $3.9M price is too high.
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Gunfire, chants mark Wounded Knee anniversary
February 28, 2013 in The Daily Republic
WOUNDED KNEE (AP) A Pine Ridge Indian Reservation resident who found herself in the middle of the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation said Wednesday amid ceremonial gunfire and chants that little has changed since the fatal standoff.
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WOSTER: Wounded Knee can still teach us
February 27, 2013 in The Daily Republic
Occupation began 40 years ago today.
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Reflection as Wounded Knee occupation 40th anniversary approaches
February 26, 2013 in The Daily Republic
“It just caused a complete awareness all over the world about Indian people and the struggle they’d been going through here in our own country,” said Clyde Bellecourt, who helped found the AIM movement in the late 1960s. Continue Reading
Landowner asks $3.9M for part of Wounded Knee site
February 14, 2013 in The Daily Republic
SIOUX FALLS (AP) One of the country’s poorest Native American tribes wants to buy a historically significant piece of land where 300 of their ancestors were killed, but tribal leaders say the nearly $4 million price tag for a property appraised at less than $7,000 is just too much.
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Landowner trying to sell portion of Wounded Knee
February 13, 2013 in The Daily Republic
SIOUX FALLS (AP) Another piece of land that is historically significant to the Sioux tribes is up for sale by a private landowner.
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Researcher, write to speak on Wounded Knee
September 10, 2012 in The Daily Republic
RAPID CITY (AP) Black Hills State University will be hosting a history presentation on the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre.
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