WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 during the Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their awards, in a video Thursday ...
In 1890, the U.S. Army herded hundreds of Lakota Sioux Americans into a clearing near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, ordered them to hand over their weapons, and then opened fire, killing as many ...