to save and preserve Wounded Knee by purchasing it and turning it into a national monument.

Wounded Knee is a significant historical site for the United States and deserves full government protection. The Wounded Knee Massacre occurred on December 29, 1890, near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. By the time the battle was over, at least 150 men, women, and children of the Lakota had been killed and 51 wounded (4 men, 47 women and children, some of whom died later); some estimates placed the number of dead at 300. It was the last battle of the American Indian Wars and a source of countless cultural references and scholarly works. The battlefield, scarred by modern intrusions and fragmented by a road system, deserves federal investment and protection.