U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) worked with the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to introduce the ...
These people were coming toward Pine Ridge agency, and when they were almost on the agency they were met by the soldiers and surrounded and finally taken to the Wounded Knee creek, and there at a ...
Now, the Pentagon is poised to strip the nation’s highest award for valor from soldiers who slaughtered Native American ...
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 ...
For the Oglala Lakota of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that place is a site near Wounded Knee Creek, 16 miles northeast of the town of Pine Ridge. From a distance the hill is unremarkable ...
The Defense Department has announced that it is officially reviewing 20 of the Medals of Honor awarded to men who fought against the Lakota in the engagement at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890.
“The Wounded Knee Massacre grounds have long served as a place where tribal members can remember and honor those who lost their lives,” said Thune. “This legislation would preserve these grounds as a ...
Lawmakers advanced H.R. 165, the “Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act,” by a 416-0 vote under suspension of ...
Senators Rounds and Thune re-introduce legislation to return part of the Wounded Knee Massacre site to restricted fee status.
Dee Brown’s 1970 book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee remains perhaps the best-known account of American Indian history, but Ojibwe writer David Treuer has long seen problems with its takeaways.