![1891 January 3. The Medican [i.e. Medicine] Man. View of the slain frozen body of a Native American Lakota Sioux medicine man, Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. The body has clenched arms and is posed with a rifle. (Denver Public Library; Western History Collection)](https://frontierpartisans.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/wounded-knee-012-XL.jpg)
1891 January 3. The Medican [i.e. Medicine] Man. View of the slain frozen body of a Native American Lakota Sioux medicine man, Wounded Knee Creek, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota. The body has clenched arms and is posed with a rifle. (Denver Public Library; Western History Collection)
In an interview with The Daily Mail on Sunday, well-known actor Johnny Depp disclosed that he intends to buy Wounded Knee, a national historic landmark, and gift it back to the Indian people. He shared that he is ready to spend millions in order to give control back to those that should have inherited the land, and help make right what went so wrong back in 1890.
“It’s very sacred ground and many atrocities were committed against the Sioux there,” he said. “And in the 1970s there was a stand-off between the Feds (Federal government) and the people who should own that land. This historical land is so important to the Sioux culture and all I want to do is buy it and give it back. Why doesn’t the government do that?”
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