Land bill caught up in dispute over Lumbee recognition Meanwhile, an effort to push the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act through Congress failed in November after one senator ...

Johnson’s Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act passed the House in 2023 but didn’t make it through the Senate last year. The new session of Congress began Friday.

U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, reintroduced a bill Monday to protect 40 acres at the Wounded Knee Massacre site on behalf of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Johnson’s ...

A bill reintroduced by Sens. Mike Rounds and John Thune to protect land at the site of the Wounded Knee Massacre is advancing through the Senate. Rounds reintroduced the bill, SB 105, to the ...

The medals awarded to soldiers who participated in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre will be subjected to a review, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Wednesday. The department said the review ...

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered a review of Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890. Up to 20 medals could be revoked for attacking civilians.

BEAR SOLDIER, S.D. - When Donaven Yellow of Wakpala, S.D., joined the Spirit Riders, he pledged to ride four years in the Big Foot Memorial Ride, a near 300-mile journey ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has directed the Pentagon to review 20 Medals of Honor awarded for actions during the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, in which the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry opened fire ...

Johnson’s Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act passed the House in 2023 but didn’t make it through the Senate last year. The new session of Congress began Friday.