Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor
Source: AP
Updated 9:02 PM EDT, September 25, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of Honor for their actions in 1890 at Wounded Knee will keep their awards in a video posted to social media Thursday evening.
Hegseth’s predecessor, Lloyd Austin, ordered the review of the awards in 2024 after a Congressional recommendation in the 2022 defense bill — itself a reflection of efforts by some lawmakers to rescind the awards for those who participated in the bloody massacre on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Indian Reservation near Wounded Knee Creek.
While the events of that day are sometimes described as a battle, historical records show that the U.S. Army, which was in the midst of amid a campaign to repress the tribes in the area, killed an estimated 250 Native Americans, including women and children, of the Lakota Sioux tribe, while attempting to disarm Native American fighters who had already surrendered at their camp.
“We’re making it clear that (the soldiers) deserve those medals,” Hegseth said in the video, before adding that “their place in our nation’s history is no longer up for debate.”
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Just another DUI hire in the Trump regime 
The rewriting of history by a fascist administration from putting up pictures of Robert E. Lee @ West
Point, trying to get the Smithsonian to stop denigrating slave owners, and now letting the awards of
soldiers who massacred starving Lakota after they did a dance called the “Ghost Dance” on themfrozen
ground.
