Help save Wounded Knee!

[gregor]

Today I got this mail:

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Hi,

The historic and sacred site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre is about to be sold at auction to the highest bidder. It should be preserved as a National Monument, not sold for condos or private use. We have an obligation to preserve this for the historical record, our national conscience and for the First Nations people whose murdered ancestors call for us to sanctify this ground forever.
www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/opinion/save-wounded-knee.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

That's why I signed a petition to President Barack Obama, which says:

"The United States should buy the historically invaluable and sacred site of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre of the Lakota people and make it a National Monument. The owner is about to put it up for auction after May 1, and it will be sold to private party and lost to history if the federal government does not step in."

Will you sign the petition too? Click here to add your name:

signon.org/sign/president-obama-save-7?source=s.fwd&r_by=7732831

Thanks!
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Well, I think we should support the petition!

Wopila tanka!
Toksha
Gregor

[bob]

Hi, I'm Bob and I just joined this forum. And I just did the petition. And you know what I cant help wondering, When are all these insane injustices with these people going to end?

[emilylevine]

And revoke the medals of honor awarded to those who did the killing.

[karankawa]

Here's the latest info I've found:

New battle for Wounded Knee: sale of massacre site exposes tribal tensions:  Oglala Sioux must find nearly $4m to prevent massacre site being sold off, the latest in a series of issues that has the South Dakota tribe's modernisers and traditionalists at loggerheads

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/01/wounded-knee-tensions-south-dakota-tribe

.... and a short article by Chief Joseph Brings Plenty:

SAVE WOUNDED KNEE
By Chief Joseph Brings Plenty
Special to the New York Times (NYT) 
Published: April 11, 2013
Web:  www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/opinion/save-wounded-knee.html?_r=0