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S. 105119th CongressNative Americans
Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act
Sponsored by Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) · 1 active : 1 Republican
Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 176.
Where it standsBefore the Senate9 senators score as swing votes
Hasn’t passed either chamber
- Senate: next
- House: not yet
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govWounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act
This bill directs the Department of the Interior to complete all actions necessary to place approximately 40 acres of land in Oglala Lakota County, South Dakota, into restricted fee status for the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
Restricted fee status
refers to land that is owned by a tribe or tribal member but is subject to restrictions by the United States against alienation (i.e., sale or transfer) or encumbrance (e.g., liens, leases, or rights-of-way) by operation of law.
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The bill requires the land to be held and maintained as a memorial and sacred site, as outlined by the document titled
Covenant Between the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
and dated October 21, 2022. Further, it prohibits commercial development and gaming activity on the land.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- Senate Committee on Indian Affairs · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to
Subjects
- Federal-Indian relations
- Indian lands and resources rights
- Land transfers
- South Dakota
- State and local taxation
How the Senate breaks down
- 9Swing 70–100
- 60Middle 30–70
- 31Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
1 activeShow all 1 cosponsors
- John Thune (R-SD)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
