Native American communities that had long wanted the removal of military honors for the soldiers involved in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre had their hopes dashed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in ...
On Dec. 29, 1890, hundreds of Lakota Sioux men, women and children were killed by U.S. Army troops on the Pine Ridge Reservation in what is known as the Wounded Knee massacre. After the fighting, 19 U ...