Efforts to rescind the medals given to soldiers from the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre were halted this evening when Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth announced that they would keep them. The Wounded Knee Massacre is arguably one of the most brutal and traumatic acts of violence documented against American Indian people, where more than 250 Lakota—majority of them women and children—were gunned down and killed after rumors a shot was fired from a Lakota person after they volunteered to surrender their weapons on December 30, 1890.
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