Wounded Knee Property Owner Renews Bid to Sell

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Oglala Sioux President Bryan Brewer plans to meet Friday with a Rapid City landowner in what could be a last-ditch attempt to avert the public sale of land at one of the most sacred sites on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

KOTA-TV first reported that James Czywczynski is again accepting private bids on a 40-acre parcel in the vicinity of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, after months of negotiations with the tribe.

Czywczynski tells the Rapid City Journal the land is still available to the tribe, but "it's kind of like first come, first served now."

Czywczynski wants $4.9 million for the parcel at Wounded Knee and 40 acres at Porcupine Butte. The tribe says it's an exorbitant price for the two parcels valued at a total of $14,000.