Wounded Knee anniversary renews push to revoke US Medals of Honor
Three months after the massacre, the first Medal of Honor for Wounded Knee was awarded to an officer who, according to the ...
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“The Most Important Indian”—In Memory of Hank Adams (1943–2020)
the National Museum of the American Indian Hank Adams carries a letter from the White House to Chief Frank Fools Crow (Oglala Lakota) during the siege of Wounded Knee. Pine Ridge Reservation ...
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On This Day in 1890, the U.S. Army Killed Nearly 300 Lakota People in the Wounded Knee Massacre
Federal troops had killed between 150 and 300 people in southwestern South Dakota in an incident now known as the Massacre at Wounded Knee. It made sensational news—what one paper called ...
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Effort to protect Wounded Knee site must start over in Congress
An effort to push the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act through Congress failed in November after one senator opposed the bill. The effort to protect 40 acres at the Wounded Knee ...
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Fate uncertain for Wounded Knee land bill and medals review as massacre commemoration approaches
As the 134th commemoration of the Wounded Knee Massacre nears, efforts to protect the massacre site and review medals awarded to participating soldiers are in limbo. After years of activism by Lakota ...