“These acres are part of the Wounded Knee Massacre site, and because we lost our relatives on these lands, they are sacred to us as Memorial and Sacred Site Land."
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The Oglala Sioux and the Cheyenne River Sioux said the purchase of the land was an act of cooperation to ensure the area was preserved as a sacred site.