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Wounded Knee Site put up for sale

April 3, 2013 / editor / Uncategorized
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Anger Over Plan to Sell Site of Wounded Knee Massacre

By JOHN ELIGON

Published: March 30, 2013

WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. — Ever since American soldiers massacred men, women and children here more than a century ago in the last major bloodshed of the American Indian wars, this haunted patch of rolling hills and ponderosa pines has embodied the combustible relationship between Indians and the United States government.

It was here that a group of Indian activists aired their grievances against the government with a forceful takeover in 1973 that resulted in protests, a bloody standoff with federal agents and deep divisions among the Indian people.

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