From the LA Times:
BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. — The southern half of this swath of grasslands and chiseled pink spires looks untouched from a distance. Closer up, the scars of history are easy to see.
Unexploded bombs lie in ravines, a reminder of when the military confiscated the land from the Oglala Sioux tribe during World War II and turned it into an artillery range. Poachers who have stolen thousands of fossils over the years have left gouges in the landscape. On a plateau, a solitary makeshift hut sits ringed by empty Coke cans and shaving cream canisters. It is the only remnant of a three-year occupation by militant tribal activists who had demanded that the land be returned.
Now the National Park Service is contemplating doing just that: giving the 133,000-acre southern half of Badlands National Park back to the tribe. The northern half, which has a paved road and a visitor center, would remain with the park system.
(H/T Patrick O’Donnell)
Turtle Talk 
so, finally, after they’re done with the place, and having left it a garbage heap/ mine field, they’re ready to turn it over to the lakotas. for what? cleanup? i hope it’s not seriously in the name of restitution. that’d be a laugh…
“here, we made a real mess of the place, now you can have it!”