U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) worked with the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to introduce the ...
The Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act passed the House unanimously last Congress, but was not voted on by ...
“The Wounded Knee Massacre grounds have long served as a place where tribal members can remember and honor those who lost ...
Johnson’s Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act passed the House in 2023 but didn’t make it through the Senate last year.
The Wounded Knee Memorial, shown here on Feb. 10, 2023, marks the site of the massacre of hundreds of Lakota people by U.S. soldiers in 1890. (Photo by Kalle Benallie/ICT) Native activists fear the ...
The date marked the slaughter of hundreds of Lakota, including women and children, in the snow at Wounded Knee Creek by the 7th Cavalry on Dec. 29, 1890. “I have never heard of a more brutal ...
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 ...
Plastic flowers and American flags are placed atop graves at the Wounded Knee Memorial and cemetery on June 30, 2024. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight via the North Dakota Monitor) (Makenzie ...