Wounded Knee controversy

Elizabeth B. Pollard (uahebp01@asnuah.asn.net)
Tue, 1 Sep 1992 11:17:00 CST

A follow-up to our earlier message about writing your senators and
congressmen opposing the establishment of a national park at Wounded
Knee. We have received replies from both our congressman and our senator.
Both are the usual non-committal expressions of thanks, but our repre-
sentative went a step beyond by doing some legwork concerning the House
Resolution. He determined that the bill has a different number than the
one we provided earlier, and included some other information about it.
Accordingly, I am transcribing his letter below both to show the new
number and information about the bill, and to give an idea of the tone
of the responses. -- Liz

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Dear Mr. and Mrs. Pollard:

I received your letter expressing your opposition to the
establishment of a national monument at Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

You state in your letter that this is provided for in H.Res.
2032. I have been unable to find a bill designated as H.Res. 2032
nut I have found a bill designated as H.R. 5856 that does authorize
the establishment of the Chief Big Foot National Memorial Park and
the Wounded Knee National Memorial in the State of South Dakota.

At the present time, there are two cosponsors of this
legislation, introduced by Representative Johnson of South Dakota.
Furthermore, after its introduction, H.R. 5856 was referred to the
House Committee on the Interior and Insular Affairs. No further
action has been taken on this bill but should it come to the floor
of the House for a vote, I will certainly keep your views in mind.

Thank you for writing. If I may be of further assistance to
you, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Sincerely,

Bud Cramer
Member of Congress

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If you have not yet written to your representative regarding this issue,
perhaps this information will be of use.

Elizabeth & Grosvenor Pollard

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