HR 165
Became law
Directs the Interior Secretary to finish the steps needed to hold about 40 acres at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in restricted fee status for the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.
Official title: Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
03-JAN-2025
Referred
03-JAN-2025
Passed
22-JAN-2025
Senate
Received
23-JAN-2025
Approved by committee
05-MAR-2025
Reported
02-OCT-2025
On the calendar
02-OCT-2025
Passed
11-DEC-2025
President
Presented
18-DEC-2025
Signed
19-DEC-2025
Became law
19-DEC-2025
- Requires the Interior Secretary, within 365 days, to complete the survey, legal description corrections, and paperwork needed for the roughly 40-acre Wounded Knee parcel to be held in restricted fee status by the two tribes.
- Makes the land part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, subject to Oglala Sioux Tribe jurisdiction, and exempt from state and local taxation.
- Bars transfer of the land without consent of Congress and the tribes, and bars its use for gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
- Limits use of the land to the purposes allowed by the October 21, 2022 Covenant between the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, and keeps existing utility agreements and easements in place.
Current. The Congressional Research Service's summary covers the bill's latest wording (Public Law, 19-DEC-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Natural Resources Committee (House)
- Indian Affairs Committee (Senate)
Native Americans
No cosponsors.