THE TURTLE ISLAND MESSENGER

BREAKING NEWS!

HISTORIC RETURN OF SACRED LAND TO 'OCETI SAKOWIN', THE GREAT SIOUX NATION

AFTER 136 YEARS OF OCCUPATION PE' SLA

RETURNS TO LAKOTA, DAKOTA AND NAKOTA NATIONS TO BE HELD IN TRUST FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS

DEAL FINALIZED IN PE'SLA LAND SALE

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/article/tribes-reach-9-million-goal-and-purchase-sacred-site-pe-sla-146015

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11-30-12

By Deborah LaVallie

The Oceti Sakowin: the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota Nations are celebrating the historic return of 'part' off their ancestral homelands, Pe' Sla after 136 years, when the lands that were originally, their sacred ceremonial grounds in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and legally, Great Sioux Nation Treaty lands, negotiated and diminished under 'duress' in the Fort Laramie Treaties of 1851 and 1868 were stolen, during the Black Hills 'Gold Rush' of the 1870's.

The re-acquisition of Pe' Sla for $9 million was finalized Friday after months of negotiations and fund raising. In a press release issued by the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe and the Shakopee Mdewakantan Sioux Tribe, the finalization of the agreement between the Tribes and Leonard and Margaret Reynolds who have owned the Reynolds Ranch where Pe' Sla is located was confirmed. The Tribes will form Oceti Sakowin Sacred Lands Protection Commission to protect and preserve the sacred land, known as the center of the Lakota creation for the future generations. A group of Tribes and interested parties, along with celebrities joined together in an online campaign to raise the $9 million the Reynolds were asking for the tract of land that came up for sale.