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A South Dakota man is asking the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council to approve a search for the remains of a Black civil rights activist who disappeared during the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff.
Wounded Knee Medals of Honor come under scrutiny as massacre is revisited Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered a review of Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee ...
Fifty years ago, Oglala Lakota activists took over the village of Wounded Knee in an occupation that lasted 71 days. Journalist Kevin McKiernan reflects on the standoff and the legacy it leaves.
Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later Memories of the Wounded Knee occupation — one in a string of protests from 1969 to 1973 that pushed the American Indian Movement to the ...
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered a review of Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890.
Ultimately, 20 soldiers who participated in the massacre at Wounded Knee received the Medal of Honor.
After the mass killing at Wounded Knee, the American Museum of Natural History received children’s toys taken from the site. A 1990 law was meant to “expeditiously return” such items to ...
Tensions that had been smoldering on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota flared up 50 years ago Monday, when activists from the American Indian Movement took over the town of Wounded Knee.
The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council will be asked to approve a search for the remains of a Black civil rights activist who ...
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP) — Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights. As a medic during the occupation of Wounded Knee in early 1973, Thunder Hawk was stationed nightly in a frontline bunker ...