U.S. Army soldiers who took part in the 1890 slaughter of Lakota men, women and children at Wounded Knee will keep their medals posthumously, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on social media Thursday.
Why it matters: The move halts some lawmakers' push to revoke medals tied to the massacre on South Dakota's present-day Oglala Sioux tribal lands — an event Native Americans see as a painful climax of Indigenous removal.
