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   From: wolfbat359a@mindspring.com   
      
   In 1890, Wounded Knee was the site of a brutal massacre. More than 150   
   men, women, and children of the Lakota tribe were brutally slaughtered   
   by American soldiers. It has become a sacred place to the Lakota   
   Sioux; it is an important part of their spiritual heritage. But the   
   site's private owner is now trying to sell it off to the highest   
   bidder -- one of whom would build a horse slaughterhouse on the site.   
      
   The U.S. government transferred Wounded Knee to private ownership in   
   the late 1800s, where it's remained ever since. Its current owner has   
   owned the plot since 1968. Now, he's looking to sell it off -- and   
   he's offered it to the Oglala tribe for the cool price of $3.9   
   million.   
      
   The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, just a few miles from where Wounded   
   Knee is located, is one of the poorest places in the country. To ask   
   them to pay millions of dollars for land they should rightly own is   
   akin to ransom, and to build a horse slaughterhouse there would be   
   downright unthinkable.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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