H. R. 165 
One Hundred Nineteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-five 
An Act 
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. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Wounded Knee Massacre Memo-
rial and Sacred Site Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) RESTRICTED
FEE
STATUS.—The term ‘‘restricted fee 
status’’ means a status in which the Tribal land— 
(A) shall continue to be owned by the Tribes; 
(B) shall be part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation 
and expressly made subject to the civil and criminal juris-
diction of the Oglala Sioux Tribe; 
(C) shall not be transferred without the consent of 
Congress and the Tribes; 
(D) shall not be subject to taxation by a State or 
local government; and 
(E) shall not be subject to any provision of law pro-
viding for the review or approval by the Secretary of the 
Interior before the Tribes may use the land for any purpose 
as allowed by the document titled ‘‘Covenant Between the 
Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe’’ 
and dated October 21, 2022, directly, or through agreement 
with another party. 
(2) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of the Interior. 
(3) TRIBAL
LAND.—The term ‘‘Tribal land’’ means the 
approximately 40 acres (including the surface and subsurface 
estate, and mineral estate, and any and all improvements, 
structures, and personal property on those acres) on the Pine 
Ridge Indian Reservation in Oglala Lakota County, at Rural 
County Road 4, Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and generally 
depicted as ‘‘Area of Interest’’ on the map entitled ‘‘Wounded 
Knee Sacred Site and Memorial Land’’ and dated October 26, 
2022, which is a segment of the December 29, 1890, Wounded 
Knee Massacre site. 
(4) TRIBES.—The term ‘‘Tribes’’ means the Oglala Sioux 
Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of the Cheyenne River 
Reservation, both tribes being among the constituent tribes
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of the Great Sioux Nation and signatories to the Fort Laramie 
Treaty of 1868 between the United States of America and 
the Great Sioux Nation, 15 Stat. 635. 
SEC. 3. LAND HELD IN RESTRICTED FEE STATUS BY THE TRIBES. 
(a) ACTION BY SECRETARY.—Not later than 365 days after enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary shall— 
(1) complete all actions, including documentation and minor 
corrections to the survey and legal description of Tribal land, 
necessary for the Tribal land to be held by the Tribes in 
restricted fee status; and 
(2) appropriately assign each applicable private and munic-
ipal utility and service right or agreement with regard to the 
Tribal land. 
(b) CONDITIONS.— 
(1) FEDERAL LAWS RELATING TO INDIAN LAND.—Except as 
otherwise provided in this Act, the Tribal land shall be subject 
to Federal laws relating to Indian country, as defined by section 
1151 of title 18, United States Code and protected by the 
restriction against alienation in section 177 of title 25, United 
States Code. 
(2) USE OF LAND.—The Tribal land shall be used for the 
purposes allowed by the document titled ‘‘Covenant Between 
the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe’’ 
and dated October 21, 2022. 
(3) ENCUMBRANCES
AND
AGREEMENTS.—The Tribal land 
shall remain subject to any private or municipal encumbrance, 
right-of-way, restriction, easement of record, or utility service 
agreement in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
(4) GAMING.—Pursuant to the document titled ‘‘Covenant 
Between the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux 
Tribe’’ and dated October 21, 2022, the Tribal land shall not 
be used for gaming activity under the Indian Gaming Regu-
latory Act (25 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.). 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.