President Trump Signs Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act

President Donald Trump signed the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act on December 18, placing 40 acres currently owned by the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation into restricted fee status. The reservation was allotted in 1889, and the land was eventually sold to non-Indian owners, and they built and operated a trading post and museum at the site for many decades. South Dakota’s congressional leaders all sponsored the bill, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe celebrate the designation.

Wounded Knee Medal of Honor Soldiers Will Keep Them Says Defense Secretary Hegseth

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.

Mass Killings, Native Erasure by Matt Remle

The genocide had begun, one driven, and backed, by an ideology under the Doctrine of Discovery that claimed European Christians had a God given right to set forth and colonize any lands not occupied by European Christians.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansNovember 9, 2021Matt Remle, Last Real Indians, Genocide, Columbus, Wounded Knee, Sand Creek, Google

Niagara Falls, NY Inaugurates First Annual Indigenous People's Weekend

The city of Niagara Falls, NY has officially inaugurated Indigenous People’s Weekend as an annual holiday celebration.

Niagara Falls City Councilman Calls for Removal of Wounded Knee Medal of Honor Recipient from Monument

On this, the 130th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Massacre, I wish to first express my deepest sympathy for the Lakota people who are still healing from this tragedy.

FeaturedLast Real IndiansDecember 30, 2020Wounded Knee, Last Real Indians, Medal of Honor

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