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S. Rept. 119-71 1 (2025-10-02)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxahtr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUT-ENTICATED US. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP Calendar No. 176 119TH CONGRESS REPORT 1st Session SENATE 119-71 WOUNDED KNEE MASSACRE MEMORIAL AND SACRED SITE ACT OCTOBER 2, 2025.-Ordered to be printed Mrs. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Indian Affairs, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 105] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Indian Affairs, to which was referred the bill, S. 105, 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, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE S. 105 would place approximately 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 AND NEED 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. 69-010