On July 19, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered the review by five experts to examine the actions of 20 soldiers involved ...
Part 1 of this series looked at the circumstances leading to a massacre of Lakota men, women and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on December 29, 1890. In November, a museum in Barre ...
The end result was a beautiful collection of images and text that gave viewers and readers a sense of time, and cemented AP’s place as the chronicler of the history of the 1973 takeover of the town of ...
U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) worked with the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to introduce the ...
If made into law, the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site would formerly reintegrate the Wounded Knee "killing ...
Lakota from reservations across South Dakota gathered at the Wounded Knee Cemetery on the Pine Ridge Reservation to commemorate ancestors massacred by the U.S. Cavalry in 1890. On top of 2-foot ...
The Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act passed the House unanimously last Congress, but was not voted on by the Senate.
Lawmakers advanced H.R. 165, the “Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act,” by a 416-0 vote under suspension of ...
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 ... darkness of the Black Hills of South Dakota. Three-year-old C. J.
New action is underway to protect the lands where a majority of bloodshed occurred during the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre ... Majority Leader John Thune of South Dakota re-introduced a bill to ...
U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, reintroduced a bill Monday to protect 40 acres at the Wounded Knee Massacre site on behalf of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe.