Posted on 09/29/2025 12:54:48 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said that Medals of Honor for soldiers who took part in an 1890 massacre of Native Americans would not be revoked.
More than 300 Lakota Sioux men, women and children were killed by U.S. Army soldiers on Dec. 29, 1890, in one of the deadliest attacks on Native Americans by the United States military. The Lakota people had gathered to resist government control in an area of South Dakota that is now part of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.....
In 2019, Democratic lawmakers, led by Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, introduced legislation to revoke the medals from the 20 soldiers involved in the massacre at Wounded Knee after a yearslong pressure campaign by members of the Lakota tribe.
Congress has rescinded more than 900 Medals of Honor since a law passed in 1916 created a board of retired military officers to review previous awards. In 1990, Congress apologized to the descendants of the Native Americans killed and injured at Wounded Knee.
The campaign to remove the medals gained momentum in 2020, when historical and systemic racism received intense attention. Many of the medals given out for the U.S. Army’s Indian Wars for land and resources in the West were for violent acts against Native Americans. .... “Under my direction, we’re making it clear without hesitation that the soldiers who fought in the Battle of Wounded Knee in 1890 will keep their medals, and we’re making it clear that they deserved those medals,” Mr. Hegseth said in the video......
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I could not applaud this sentiment too highly.
What they did should NEVER be forgotten.
What they don’t tell you about Wounded Knee...
“Little Bat’s” (Baptiste Garnier)(last prominent field service was in connection with the Sioux campaign of 1890-91. When Big Foot’s band was corralled at Wounded Knee creek by the Seventh cavalry he doubted the sincerity of the Indians, who had promised to surrender formally on the following day. He told Colonel Forsyth of his fears. The night passed without incident. With the break of day the camps of the troopers and soldiers were astir. Breakfast over, an order was issued that the redskins surrender their arms. This they refused or at least did not do. Thereupon they were commanded to stand in line and submit to a thorough search, as it was “Little Bat’s” belief that the weapons were concealed beneath the folds of the savages’ blankets.
The search had not begun when a medicine man, an aged rascal freshly painted for trouble, slipped before the lines of Indians and those of the soldiers. He began a chant which was full of meaning to “Little Bat.” It was the Sioux’s death song. That a tragedy was at hand there could be no doubt in the mind of this seasoned scout.
In vain did he try to catch the eye of his colonel, who was at the extreme end of one line. Suddenly the medicine man stooped, picked up a handful of snow and sand and flung it high in the air, at the same time ceasing his chant with a shrill cry.
“Look out!” yelled “Little Bat” to the soldiers, but before they could raise their carbines a murderous fire was turned upon them from the two columns of savages. For a moment or more the troopers were in a panic. They knew not which way to turn, so sudden was the attack. But the tide of battle was quick to turn and within thirty minutes over 200 dead and wounded Indians lay upon the field. Of the troopers thirty-five, including brave Captain Wallace, were killed outright and twice as many more were disabled—an awful penalty to pay for attaching so little importance to the suspicions of so experienced a scout as “Little Bat.” Garnier got out of the cross-fire of troops and savages by crawling on his hands and knees to an elevation where a four-inch gun was planted. Here he lay pumping his Winchester into the Indians as they fled for cover in the draws of the hills.
Source: Omaha Daily Bee
If the tribe was not looking for a fight why did they make Ghost Shirts which were supposed to magically stop bullets?
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That’s WAR Secretary Hegseth, you morons.
Those slaughtered by the army were mostly women, children and old men. Most of the fighting age men were not in the camp. They could have been taken prisoner rather than butchered.
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“Hey, Miami Rebel, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.”
1/256th tempted to call Pocahontas Warren an “Indian Giver”, but CMOHs are earned and she’s no indian.
I usually take the side of any group or individual that refuse to surrender their arms to the U.S. government.
Gray Beaver is looking out for her people.
“Those slaughtered by the army were mostly women, children and old men. Most of the fighting age men were not in the camp. They could have been taken prisoner rather than butchered.”
Agree, plus most of the US soldiers killed or wounded at Wounded Knee were by friendly fire. There’s hardly anything heroic about this action.
Fair enough! I’m in.
Fair enough! I’m in.
The President can call it what he may, but only an act of Congress can change the official name of the department.
My recollection was that the Medal of Honors in the 1800’s were widely distributed. Almost like a service metal. I am not sure when it became more restrictive.
One can’t change history. Let it be.
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The method of warfare used by the Indians -
“He [King George] has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.”
This quote is from a document called The Declaration of Independence, maybe Pocahontas should read it.
The method of warfare used by the Indians -
“He [King George] has excited domestic Insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known Rule of Warfare, is an undistinguished Destruction, of all Ages, Sexes and Conditions.”
This quote is from a document called The Declaration of Independence, maybe Pocahontas should read it.
If only the Indians thought of telling the government that they lost their guns in a fishing accident.
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