WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 during the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their awards, in a video Thursday ...
The Wounded Knee Memorial for victims of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre stands on Feb. 7, 2012, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in Wounded Knee, South Dakota. (Rapid City Journal via AP) Native American ...
This story has been updated with remarks from Rep. Johnson and the current two elected tribal leaders, Oglala Sioux President Frank Star Comes Out and Cheyenne River Sioux Chairman Ryman LeBeau.
Survivors recalled arriving at the Wounded Knee camp three days after the fighting, finding a blizzard had buried the frozen bodies of Lakota men, women, children and infants in snow. They described ...
Roderick Dupris, descendant of a Lakota killed at Wounded Knee, speaks to Brad Upton, left, descendant of the commander of the Wounded Knee massacre, during a meeting on the Cheyenne River reservation ...