Johnny Depp Wants To Buy The Site of Wounded Knee Massacre & Give It Back to Native Americans

UK Daily Mail ^ | 15:57 EST, 11 July 2013 | By Meghan Keneally

[drewh]

Johnny Depp has announced that he wants to buy Wounded Knee, a national historic landmark, and give it back to the Indian people. In an interview with the Mail On Sunday, the actor revealed that he is ready to spend millions in order to give the Native American people control of the land that was the site of a brutal 1890 massacre. ‘It’s very sacred ground and many atrocities were committed against the Sioux there,' he said in the interview.

'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?’

The area near Wounded Knee Creek on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota is the site where the last major battle of the American Indian Wars took place.

The fight began when the American troops tried to disarm the Lakota Indians, and when one elderly tribesman refused to hand over his weapon the troops began to attack. The exact number of casualties differs in various reports, but there were thought to be at least 150 members of the Lakota tribe- including men, women and children- who were killed.

The massacre has caused outrage from historians as at least 20 American soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor for their role in the bloodshed.

[lightman]

The fight began when the American troops tried to disarm the Lakota Indians, and when one elderly tribesman refused to hand over his weapon the troops began to attack.

The consequence of government disarming its citizens.

[Lizavetta]

The Indians will be no further along in life 50, 100, 200 years from now if they don't get their sh*t together.

Keep your language and cultural traditions if they're important to you, but get the hell off of the boondocks reservations, take advantage of your free college tuition and tax-free status and become SUCCESSFUL with money in your pocket.

[FredZarguna]

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.

[okie01]

The fight began when the American troops tried to disarm the Lakota Indians, and when one elderly tribesman refused to hand over his weapon the troops began to attack.

At Wounded Knee in 1890, the U.S. government killed an estimated 150 native Americans -- men, women and children.

That is the largest fatality count that the U.S. government has ever inflicted upon its citizens.

Second rank goes to the Branch Davidian massacre outside of Waco, TX, in 1993, when the U.S. government killed 76 native Americans -- men, women and children.

[Caipirabob]

Fine, maybe they’ll go see your crappy movie - lolz

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Not a bad Idea but what will the Indians do with it? Make it a park? A Casino? a monument? or Museum dedicated to the Indian Wars? (Last isn’t bad if they are fare and don’t get into race bating).

[Zarro]

I believe it’s “Lie-A-Watha”...

[tumblindice]

And they were bad about crowing over their sexyouall conquests and marathon firewater drinking sessions.

[Tucker39]

Now THERE’s a serious case of white guilt!

Note to Johnny: Keep your money in your pocket. You can’t BUY a relieved conscience from being a creep.

[Tucker39]

Were they black?

[EternalVigilance]

I think he should buy the Caribbean and give it back to the pirates.

[navymom1]

If Johnny Depp really wanted to do something with lasting results, he’d help to fund the legal wrangling to get the Black Hills returned. This, I’m informed, is something of meaning to Native Peoples. And Depp doesn’t need all those millions.

[South Dakota]

Datura.
You must have lived or lived near Pine Ridge to know them so well.

Sorta kinda a funny story. A guy from California moves to Hot Springs sd.

He is walking down the road and some lakota ( red clouds tribe) gives him a lift. They are all friends so he decides to share his whiskey with them. 5 miles later they wanted to kill him

[Rebelbase]

I’m still suffering from sitting through it.

[Fightin Whitey]

This, I’m informed, is something of meaning to Native Peoples.

Really? How were you informed? On Oprah? The View? People magazine?

Do you think the Black Hills are of no meaning to any other Americans, for instance all the South Dakotans who live in or near the Black Hills?

People like you and Mr. Depp are always telling Americans (who happen to live somewhere you don't) to give land "back" to the Indians, or to give them some more money, or just to do something nice so we can all feel better.

My question--and my hometown happens to be on an Indian Reservation--is why don't those who feel so bad and guilty just leave the country?

If you think there is an eternal unpaid debt to American Indians, leaving this land is really the only honest step you can take.

[ansel12]

You think they were citizens? You are comparing it to Waco, Texas in 1993?

“It was the last battle of the American Indian Wars.”

[Tail Gunner John]

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.

[bigdaddy45]

Hey, its his money. What do you care?

[chalkfarmer]

Toksa, when I get my Black Hills money.

[okie01]

<You think they were citizens? You are comparing it to Waco, Texas in 1993?

You are offended by the comparison?

They were equally barbaric acts by a federal government against its people.