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creating the first tribal national park. Congress will still have to approve its creation.
• The U.S. government's War Department took what is now the South Unit from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to establish a practice bombing range in the 1940s. It was returned to the Oglala Sioux tribe in 1976 and has since been co-managed with the Park Service. The tribe began pushing for greater control of the unit's 133,300 acres about a decade ago, after members disagreed with the Park Service's plans for the land.
• Saturday's signing between the two parties came on the same day as an open house at the White River Visitor Center at the South Unit. The visitor center is operated by the Oglala Sioux Parks and Recreation Authority. Saturday's open house featured tanning, bow making and archery, tipi demonstrations and song and dance
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