WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has launched a review that could revoke 20 Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, marking the military’s latest effort to ...

In 2022, Congress approved a measure encouraging the Pentagon to review the awards. Medals of Honor for soldiers who perpetrated Wounded Knee massacre may be rescinded The panel reviewing the ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a review of 20 Medals of Honor given to U.S. soldiers for their actions during the 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee, which later became known as a massacre of ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a Pentagon board to review Medal of Honor awards for troops who participated in the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, where Native American women and children ...

The Remove the Stain Act of 2025 will be reintroduced by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley , along with ...

Progressives' Wounded ... 20 of the Medals of Honor awarded to men who fought against the Lakota in the engagement at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890. That skirmish, described as a “massacre ...

The date marked the slaughter of hundreds of Lakota, including women and children, in the snow at Wounded ... would review 20 Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers who took part in the massacre ...

In January 1891, a group of U.S. Army soldiers marched past their general for a final review ... an intractable enemy, Wounded Knee is remembered today as an outright massacre. ( ...

The massacre at Wounded Knee ignited what one Nebraska newspaper ... This July, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a review of medals of honor given for what he called the “engagement ...

Almost as soon as the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee was over, the battle to define ... by the 7th Cavalry and awarded 20 of the soldiers Medals of Honor. The New York Times told a different ...