Auction called off for Black Hills land

• Pe' Sla poster

This poster published at Lastrealindians.com exemplifies the attempts to raise money to by the Reynolds Prairie land, known as Pe' Sla to the Lakota.

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The planned auction of nearly 2,000 acres of land in South Dakota’s picturesque Black Hills that is considered sacred by American Indian tribes has been cancelled, though it wasn’t immediately clear why.

Brock Auction Company planned to auction five tracts of land owned by local residents Leonard and Margaret Reynolds on Saturday. But a message on the auction house’s website Thursday said it has been cancelled at the land owners’ direction.

The auction house and Margaret Reynolds declined comment, and tribal officials were left wondering what had happened.

“There are a lot of things we don’t know at this point,” Rosebud Sioux Tribe spokesman Alfred Walking Bull said. “If there was a change of heart, we’re definitely thankful for that.”

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