S 105
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Directs the Interior Department to place about 40 acres of land at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, into restricted fee status, keeping it owned by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
Official title: Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
Senate
Introduced
15-JAN-2025
Referred
15-JAN-2025
Approved by committee
05-MAR-2025
Reported
02-OCT-2025
On the calendar
02-OCT-2025
- Requires the Interior Secretary to complete all necessary actions, including survey corrections, within 365 days of enactment.
- Keeps the land part of the Pine Ridge Reservation under Oglala Sioux Tribe jurisdiction and bars its transfer without consent of Congress and the tribes.
- Exempts the land from state and local taxation and from Interior Department review before the tribes use it for purposes allowed by a 2022 tribal covenant.
- Bars gaming on the land under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and leaves existing easements, rights-of-way, and utility agreements in place.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in Senate" (15-JAN-2025); the text has changed since (Reported to Senate, 02-OCT-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Indian Affairs Committee (Senate)
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