National Historic Site of Wounded Knee

December 01, 2016

RAPID CITY –– When Jim Czywczynski decided to sell the 40-acres of land that is the massacre site of Wounded Knee his asking price was $3.9 million.

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This week he is reducing the price by $900,000 in hopes that this will help him find a buyer.

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Czywczynski was the owner of the Wounded Knee Trading Post and Museum in 1973 when it was taken by force by members of the American Indian Movement. The Post and Museum were eventually reduced to ashes during the takeover. Fearing that it would be destroyed again if he rebuilt it that land has sat empty since 1973.

March 18, 2016

Russia is about to build a museum to honor American Indians slaughtered in America. Native Americans here in America believe the Lakota people should take the lead and have a museum built at Wounded Knee to honor all of the Native Americans massacred in America. Here is a list of some of the massacres.

February 24, 2016

When some folks say leave Wounded Knee alone; leave it as it was; what are they talking about? Do they mean like it was 90 years ago or like it is now?

February 03, 2016

Giago sat down with Dakota Midday host Lori Walsh to share his memories of growing up near the site, the history lessons that were not taught in school, and why now is the time to move forward with both honoring the dead and celebrating the living.

January 26, 2016

An Oglala Lakota newspaper publisher has started a campaign to buy 40 acres of private land near the Wounded Knee Massacre site.

The land is held by a non-native owner who is asking nearly $4-million for the property.  

Those backing the plan to buy the land say it needs to be held by the Lakota people and used in a positive way.

January 11, 2016

RAPID CITY, S.D. - Tim Giago has a simple idea: help raise enough money to buy land for sale adjacent to the Wounded Knee massacre site. 

But nothing stays simple for long when talk turns to Wounded Knee.

January 06, 2016

The announcement in last week’s Native Sun News that our former publisher, Tim Giago, has signed an agreement to purchase the land at Wounded Knee has caused quite a stir.

The point Giago made that is often not considered is that he intends to set up a trust so the land can be owned in common for all 9 tribes of the Great Sioux Nation.

December 29, 2015

The historic site of Wounded Knee is cold and quiet on this day that marks the 125th Anniversary of the massacre that happened on December 29, 1890.

Fresh fallen snow covers the grounds of the burial site and the cold cement of the floor that once was home to the Wounded Knee Trading Post. 

December 29, 2015

Tim Giago, Lakota, renowned journalist, publisher and founder of publications such as the Lakota Times, Native Sun News and Indian Country Today, has told ICTMN he has signed an agreement to purchase the historic site of Wounded Knee from James Czywczynski for $3.9 million.

December 29, 2015

RAPID CITY, SD - For years, Oglala Tribe officials have been unable to reach an agreement with a private landowner to purchase most of the Wounded Knee Massacre site. But Lakota journalist Tim Giago of Rapid City, who spent his childhood living near the site, believes he has a plan that will work.

December 30, 2015

When the foundation he created raises $3 million — and Tim Giago has no doubt that will happen — he wants to see the Wounded Knee land he buys on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation transformed into a tourist attraction.