Sounds like the owner or the bank are just trying to generate some PR buzz and rip off someone not from the area with more money than sense.<p>It&#x27;s a few acres of prairie with some buildings that need to be torn down. I&#x27;m not up to date on land prices in western SD, but I can&#x27;t imagine good pasture land is worth more than $2k&#x2F;acre, even with the surge in beef prices recently.<p>It&#x27;s also worth noting that the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Indian Reservations are located in the poorest counties in America. I&#x27;ve visited a couple times and it really is striking that such poverty exists in America. The one stat I can remember from a volunteer trip several years ago was that an 18 yr old boy had a &lt;50% chance of living to 25. When I was in high school we would play football and basketball games there on occasion - our bus always had police escorts in and out of town.