Wounded Knee Survivors Descendants
(Coming Soon ! History, Background and Chapters)
Reparations for Massacre Survivors
For generations the survivors of the Wounded Knee Massacre have sought
redress
for their losses and injuries as as innocent victims of the attack
on them in 1890.
Today, their descendants continue in honor of their ancestors
and families.
S1846
SUMMARY OF ABDNOR WOUNDED KNEE COMPENSATION BILL
This bill has a rather simple purpose, and includes some specific provisions for accomplishing that purpose. To accomplish the purpose of the bill in a "legal" manner the bill must be drafted to handle the details of the situation as it is now known, and also for handling some unknown or unexpected aspects of the situation which the bill addresses itself to. For this reason the bill itself will seem unduly complicated and confusing to some who read it.The main purpose of the bill is to provide compensation frcm the Federal Government to innocent victims who suffered personal injury, or loss of property due to the lawless occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota between February 27, 1973 and May 8, 1973, and to vest in the Federal Government the right to recover from the responsible or liable parties the damages for which Federal compensation is so paid.
To do this, of course, it becomes necessary to define terms and to set up the mechanics to determine who the innocent victims are and what the extent of their loss is and to appropriate the money necessary to compensate the victims and to administer the payment.
Because so much of the controversey which surrounded the occupation of Wounded Knee is associated with inequity and injustice, it becomes necessary to take extra pains to insure that conpensation wil be allocated on a just and equitable basis. To do so necessarily requires staff and procedures which become expensive and time consuming. It is sincerely hoped that administrative expense and delay can be kept to a minimum, and this bill
was drafted with that intent.
SUMMARY
OF WOUNDED KNEE SENATE HEARINGS
Wounded Knee 2003 - 30 Years Later!
A CALL TO AIM
