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Lucy Campbell

Hegseth says Wounded Knee massacre soldiers will keep Medals of Honor

people read a display titled 'massacre of Wounded Knee'
Visitors read about the massacre of Wounded Knee in South Dakota on 23 June 2015. Photograph: Jose More/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Defense secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that 20 US soldiers who took part in the 1890 massacre of hundreds of Lakota men, women and children at Wounded Knee will keep the Medals of Honor that were awarded to them.

The move is the latest in a number of contentious actions taken by the Trump administration to reinterpret US history.

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