The genesis of the massacre began with a dance. During the throes of a continuing drought on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1890, the Lakota people living there were also contending with severely ...
What happened at Wounded Knee was not a battle. To recognize these acts as honorable is to distort history itself.
After the fighting, Medals of Honor were given to 20 soldiers from the 7th Cavalry Regiment, and their awards cite a range of actions including bravery, efforts to rescue fellow troops and actions to ...
On 26 September 2025, US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth announced that the twenty soldiers who participated in the 1890 ...