Lawmakers search for to rescind Medals of Honor from troopers who carried out Wounded Knee massacre

Lawmakers in the Property of Reps have created a shift to posthumously rescind Medals of Honor awarded to U.S. soldiers who participated in the infamous 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, in which an estimated 250 Native Individuals – primarily women of all ages and little ones – have been killed.

Laws to get back the medals – the nation’s maximum award for valor – was passed last 7 days as an modification to the fiscal 2023 defense police monthly bill, Army Situations described.

While comparable attempts have been made in the previous, they had been finally established apart through compromises amongst the Residence and Senate variations of the monthly bill, in accordance to the report.

Medals of Honor were offered to 20 soldiers from the U.S. 7th Calvary Regiment for their actions in the Dec. 29, 1890 massacre in South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation around Wounded Knee Creek. 

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The Medal of Honor is the best armed forces decoration that might be awarded by the United States government. (U.S. Army)

The U.S. authorities was in search of to annex the Good Sioux Reservation, a breaking of the 1868 Treaty of Laramie, which stated the tribe would settle in the Black Hills in what was then the Dakota Territory.

Additional than 30 soldiers died at Wounded Knee, in addition to the hundreds of Native People killed.

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On Wounded Knee's centenary in 1990, Congress apologized for the massacre but did not revoke the medals. In 1996, late GOP Sen. John McCain, then chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, stated the massacre did not warrant using absent the medals.

G3 Box News’ Louis Casiano and The G3 Box News contributed to this report.