Exclusive Truthout Interview: Sioux Spiritual Leader Speaks Out on Land Sale at Sacred Site

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4. Update: Auction Cancelled for SD Land Considered Sacred

Auction cancelled for SD land considered sacred
By KRISTI EATON
Associated Press / August 23, 2012

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The planned auction of nearly 2,000 acres of land in South Dakota’s picturesque Black Hills that is considered sacred by American Indian tribes has been cancelled, though it wasn’t immediately clear why.

Brock Auction Company planned to auction five tracts of land owned by local residents Leonard and Margaret Reynolds on Saturday. But a message on the auction house’s website Thursday said it has been cancelled at the land owners’ direction.

The auction house and Margaret Reynolds declined comment, and tribal officials were left wondering what had happened.

‘‘There are a lot of things we don’t know at this point,’’ Rosebud Sioux Tribe spokesman Alfred Walking Bull said. ‘‘If there was a change of heart, we’re definitely thankful for that. We’re hoping for the best. We can take a breath right now.’’

Tribes of the Great Sioux Nation consider the site key to their creation story and are trying to purchase the land, which they call Pe’ Sla, because they fear new owners would develop it. The property, which spans about 1,942 acres of pristine prairie grass, is the only sacred site on private land currently outside Sioux control.

Rest: http://www.boston.com/news/nation/2012/08/23/auction-cancelled-for-land-considered-sacred/uIs81qqvzhvJqD7LxyeAeN/story.html

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Another link from Native News Network which goes into greater detail: http://www.nativenewsnetwork.com/pe-sla-auction-is-cancelled-sioux-tribes-still-resolution.html

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Additionally, there is a petition going around from thepetitionsite.com entitled: "Give The Black Hills Back to the Lakota" I would provide a link, but it has my personal info. There have been about 1,000 signatures in the past 10 minutes of so.