It’s such a sacred place there’s a gravel road past two or three crudely hand-painted signs where (usually drunken) Indians often go to dump trash and dead pets. Take BIA 27 North through Scenic into the I90 Badlands Loop some summer afternoon between 5:00 and 7:00 PM, if you want to see what socialism does to an entire people over the course of a century.
Drove by wounded knee maybe 5 years and it was just as you described plus one pan handling Indian. Should johnny buy it and give it back I don’t think anything would change. Maybe a new hand painted sign recognizing johnny’s great deed.