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Wounded Knee

from BBC website:

"A 40-acre parcel of land that's part of the massacre site is up for sale, and its owner has given (the Sioux) until 1 May to come up with the $3.9m (£2.5m) asking price.
If they don't, land owner James Czywczynski says he will be forced to accept one of several offers he has already secured from commercial buyers, who may attempt to capitalize on the land as a tourist attraction.

"Almost as soon as the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee was over, the battle to define what happened on that bleak December day began. 

"For decades afterwards, the official line from Washington was that the actions of the 7th Cavalrymen were heroic.  The White House and its allies in South Dakota had invested much political capital in seizing tribal land for US use, and using the army to quell Native American resistance. "