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It's advertised as a one-of-a-kind deal: Nearly 2,000 acres (800 hectares) of prime real estate nestled in the Black Hills of South Dakota for sale to the highest bidder. 
  
 This 2007 photo provided by South Dakota Magazine shows Reynolds Prairie in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Nearly 2,000 acres of the ranch, which encompasses a sacred site known as Pe Sla to a band... (Associated Press) 
  
 But the offer to sell the land near Mount Rushmore and historic Deadwood has distressed Native American tribes who consider it a sacred site. Although the land has been privately owned, members of the Great Sioux Nation _ known as Lakota, Dakota and Nakota _ have been allowed to gather there each year to perform ceremonial rituals they believe are necessary for harmony, health and well-being. 
  
 Members now fear that if the property they call Pe' Sla is sold, it will be developed and they will lose access. The South Dakota Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration are studying the possibility of paving one of the main roads that divides the land, a fact mentioned in the advertisement touting its development potential. 
  
 The tribes have banded together to try to raise money to buy back as much of the land as they can. But with a week to go until the Aug. 25 auction, they have only about $110,000 committed for property they believe will sell for $6 million to $10 million. 
  
 "A lot of our people who practice our way of life go there to pray and there are a lot of us that go up there," said Rodney Bordeaux, president of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, which is leading the effort. "Basically, it's an opportunity for the tribes to become involved and save Pe' Sla from development, commercial development, up there and try to save it and keep it in its current state, so people can always go up there to pray." 
  
 The area is the only sacred site currently on private land outside Sioux control. The tribes believe the Sioux people were created from the Black Hills, and part of their spiritual tradition says Pe' Sla is where the Morning Star fell to earth, killing seven beings that killed seven women. The Morning Star placed the souls of the women into the night sky as "The Seven Sisters," also known as the Pleiades constellation. 
  
 The land _ 1,942 acres (786 hectares) of pristine prairie grass _ is owned by Leonard and Margaret Reynolds, who would not comment on the sale. Chase Iron Eyes, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, said they should be commended for how well they have preserved the land and for giving the tribes access. Iron Eyes founded Last Real Indians, a website that promotes indigenous writers and is working with the tribes to spread the word about the sale via social media. 
  
 The auction house also would not comment on the sale. 
  
 Raising money to buy the land is a monumental and controversial undertaking for the Sioux tribes. An 1868 treaty set aside the Black Hills and other land for the Sioux, but Congress passed a law in 1877 seizing the land following the discovery of gold in western South Dakota. A 1980 U.S. Supreme Court ruling awarded more than $100 million to the Sioux tribes for the Black Hills, but the tribes have refused to accept the money, saying the land has never been for sale. There are Sioux tribes in the Dakotas, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska and Canada. 
  
 "There are a lot of our people that absolutely 100 percent do not agree with paying any money for land that we consider still ours, but the reality is we sometimes are forced to fight with the rules of the United States," Iron Eyes said. 
  
 Online donations totaled about $59,000 as of Friday. The Rosebud Sioux have allocated at least $50,000 to the cause, and other Sioux tribes are discussing how much to donate, Iron Eyes said. 
  
 The tribes are not the only ones concerned about the sale. The closest business to the property is Mount Meadow Store & Campground, which is about nine miles (14.5 kilometers) away by road. Manager Dave Oyen said he would like to see the road paved to make it friendlier to visitors, but he worries the land could end up spliced among many different buyers. He said he hopes that it goes in one piece to a rancher. 
  
 The auction comes amid a renewed interest in preserving indigenous peoples' lands and sacred sites. James Anaya, a University of Arizona professor and United Nations special rapporteur, traveled the country earlier this year visiting Native Americans. Afterward, he specifically noted the Black Hills as land that should be restored to the Native Americans as a way to foster reconciliation. The Department of the Interior also has been holding sessions around the country about the importance of protecting sacred sites on federal land. 
  
 Even if the tribes buy Pe' Sla, it's not clear what will happen next. Will one Sioux tribe be responsible for the land or will it be split among them all? 
  
 "We don't know that yet, but we are aware of it. Step No.1 is to secure the site," Iron Eyes said. 
  
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 Follow Kristi Eaton on Twitter at http://twitter.com/kristieaton. ||||| brockauction.com In South Dakota, Sioux tribes have turned to the online community to raise money to buy at least part of 2,000 acres of Black Hills land they say is part of their creation story. 
  
 In the pristine Black Hills of South Dakota, the Great Sioux Nation is in a race against the clock to raise money to buy nearly 2,000 acres of ancestral land called Pe’ Sla. 
  
 Since 1876, the Battle of Little Big Horn, the land has belonged to the Reynolds, a ranching family that has owned land where the Lakota perform healing ceremonies. But the Reynolds have put the land on the auction block, dividing the 1,940 acres into five tracts to be sold to the highest bidders. 
  
 The Sioux tribes – known as Lakota, Dakota and Nakota – have turned to the online community, soliciting money to buy the land. 
  
 Their aim: $1 million. But so far, with 57 hours left, they have raised $156,000, one tenth of their goal. 
  
 “Once they released the flyer advertising the auction, that’s when reality hit,” Chase Iron Eyes, a member of the Standing Rock and Oglala tribes. The Reynolds Prairie Ranches include most of Pe' Sla, Iron Eyes said. 
  
 Brock Auction Co., based in Iowa, is managing the sale of the Reynolds Prairie Ranches, currently owned by Leonard and Margaret Reynolds. The images of the property show remote, unending grasslands where cowboys and deer roam. Bruce Brock, the auctioneer, refused to say how much he expects from the sale and said he would not comment on the issue. 
  
 Pennington County has assessed the Reynolds’ property at $341,800, according to documents available online, although Iron Eyes said he has heard second-hand that the auction house expects between $4 million and $10 million. 
  
 Iron Eyes said the Black Hills have become a tourist destination – in part because of Sturgis, the biker rally that draws thousands to the area. Further, the state has expressed interest in paving a gravel road that goes through most of Pe’ Sla. 
  
 “The potential is very real,” Iron Eyes said. “There’s no telling what’s going to happen, what sort of development is going to come along.” 
  
 Pe’ Sla is at the heart of the Lakota creation story and is where tribe members believe all life begins. Generations of Reynolds have allowed the Lakota to hold ceremonies on the land, considered one of five sacred pilgrimage sites linked with the arrangement of the stars. 
  
 According to the Associated Press, the story goes that the Morning Star fell to earth at Pe’ Sla, killing seven women whose souls were placed in the sky, forming “The Seven Sisters,” or the Pleiades constellation. 
  
 Around the time that the Reynolds homesteaded in 1876, gold was found in western South Dakota, and Congress promptly passed a law seizing the land. In 1980, the federal Indian Claims Commission awarded the Sioux tribes $102 million for the loss of the Black Hills, but they have refused to take the money. 
  
 The money, sitting in a U.S. Treasury account, is now worth about $1 billion, according to the Atlantic magazine, but remains untouched. 
  
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 “That’s a very touchy subject,” Iron Eyes told NBC News. “That is the only remedy for stealing our land. We want the land back. We’ve been living in grinding, harsh poverty for 100 years or better, and we still won’t take the money. That’s like asking us to sell our own mother.” 
  
 As for what will happen at the auction, scheduled for 10 a.m. on Saturday at the Ramkota Inn, Iron Eyes doesn’t know. For now, the tribes are focused on their deadline. 
  
 “I don’t have a game plan for what happens after,” he said. “There are a lot of people who are extremely concerned about how this is one of our most sacred places.” 
  
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 Follow US News from NBCNews.com on Twitter and Facebook ||||| Tribe members insist that the 1877 act of Congress that moved the Sioux from their sacred Black Hills is not valid: it wasn’t agreed to by enough tribe members, and the land was never for sale in the first place. When the Supreme Court in 1980 affirmed the original award of $102 million, Gonzalez told me, “there was some jubilation among some of the tribal members. But there were a lot of younger people, including me, who felt that the Indian Claims Commission process, as it applied to the Sioux land claims, was a sham, and we should not participate.” 
  
 After all, if the land was never for sale, how can you ever accept money for it? Yet the federal courts consider the ownership question to be settled. The ICC had no authority to return land to the Sioux—just to give them restitution in the form of money. “The courthouse doors have been slammed in our face,” Gonzalez says. “Congress and the president are the only viable branches of government that can really resolve these issues.” 
  
 Some Sioux want to take the money now, Gonzalez says. “We tell them, ‘Our grandfathers and great-grandparents spilled a lot of blood so future generations could have a homeland that included the Black Hills.’” If the tribes accept the settlement, he adds, “and the money is all gone three years from now, that’s when the Sioux will become a defeated people. That’s when you will see them walking around in shame with their heads hanging.” 
  
 Over the years, it has been suggested that Congress find a way to let the principal stand but give the Sioux the interest for much-needed services—or even to buy land in the Black Hills. But both tribe members and federal officials have told me they have little confidence that the Sioux could put such suggestions into practice. Not long ago, one high-level official who has worked closely with the tribes told me it would take new kinds of leaders to get past long histories and territorial jealousies to effectively manage the money. This official has come to think that taking the money could actually tear the Sioux apart—a greater risk than the poverty they face today. 
  
 Gonzalez sees only one way forward. Soon after Obama’s inauguration, the Great Plains Tribal Chairman’s Association established the He Sapa Reparations Alliance (He Sapa means “Black Hills” in Lakota), to educate the Sioux about the land claim and to create a proposal for Congress. That proposal could give the Sioux shared ownership and management of roughly 1.3 million acres of federal land within the Black Hills—land, Gonzalez hastens to point out, that does not include federal installations like post offices or, to name a more prominent example, Mount Rushmore. 
  
 Little is simple in Indian country, with its treaties, regulations, widely varying systems of tribal governance—and, in the case of the Sioux, a billion dollars burning a hole in the collective consciousness. Yet what the Sioux are asking for has precedent. During the Nixon administration, Congress returned 48,000 acres of federal land in Carson National Forest in New Mexico to the Taos Pueblo. I worked on one decade-long battle to help the Salish and Kootenai in Montana co-manage the National Bison Range, which is in the middle of their reservation. The Oglala Sioux have co-managed the southern portion of Badlands National Park for 35 years. |||||

The tribes of the Great Sioux Nation are scrambling to raise enough funds to buy back sacred land seized from them by Congress 135 years ago. The 2,000-acre site, known as Pe' Sla, is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota and is going up for auction this week. The property has been owned since 1877 by a local family, who has allowed the Sioux to perform healing ceremonies there, reports NBC. But now members of the Reynolds family have divided the property into five parcels to be auctioned off. The Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota tribes are desperately trying to raise $1 million on the Internet, but time is running out, and they only had $156,000 yesterday. The property has been assessed by the county at $342,000, but word is out that the parcels could go for as high as $10 million. “There’s no telling what’s going to happen, what sort of development is going to come along," said Chase Iron Eyes, a member of the Standing Rock and Oglala tribes. The Sioux believe they were created at the Black Hills site, notes AP. According to their creation belief, the morning star fell to earth there, killing seven women whose souls formed the "Seven Sisters," or Pleiades constellation. Congress broke a treaty and passed a law seizing the land from the Sioux in 1877 after gold was found in western Dakota. A court ordered the federal government in 1980 to pay the Sioux $102 million for the land, but they have refused to take the money, which is now worth close to $1 billion, reports the Atlantic. The Sioux are reluctant to use the money to buy the up-for-auction land, fearing that would imply the land seizure was legitimate to begin with.