The Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act passed the House unanimously last Congress, but was not voted on by ...

U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) worked with the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe to introduce the ...

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has launched a review that could revoke 20 Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers involved in the ...

Lawmakers advanced H.R. 165, the “Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act,” by a 416-0 vote under suspension of ...

Part 1 of this series looked at the circumstances leading to a massacre of Lakota men, women and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on December 29, 1890. In November, a museum in Barre ...

“The Wounded Knee Massacre grounds have long served as a place where tribal members can remember and honor those who lost their lives,” said Thune. “This legislation would preserve these grounds as a ...

Each year, the Sitanka Wokiksuye, or Chief Big Foot Memorial Ride, remembers the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre with a 14-day journey on horseback from the Cheyenne River Reservation to the site of ...

Dee Brown’s 1970 book Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee remains perhaps the best-known account of American Indian history, but Ojibwe writer David Treuer has long seen problems with its takeaways.

Along with this week’s roll call votes, the House also passed a bill (H.R. 207), to direct the Secretary of Commerce to ...

For the Oglala Lakota of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that place is a site near Wounded Knee Creek, 16 miles northeast of the town of Pine Ridge. From a distance the hill is unremarkable ...

These people were coming toward Pine Ridge agency, and when they were almost on the agency they were met by the soldiers and surrounded and finally taken to the Wounded Knee creek, and there at a ...