SECDEF Lloyd J. Austin III has directed the DoD to review the Medals of Honor awarded to approximately 20 soldiers for their actions during the December 1890 engagement at Wounded Knee Creek, SD, to ensure no awardees were recognized for conduct inconsistent with the nation's highest military honor. In 1990, both houses of the US Congress passed a resolution on the historical centennial formally expressing "deep regret" for the massacre.
350 to 375 Native American men, women and children were killed or wounded in America's last major engagement with the Plains Indians. The US Army's 7th Cavalry casualties were 31 KIA and 33 WIA.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-army-massacres-indians-at-wounded-knee
https://www.cmohs.org/medal
https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/6-special-benefits-that-medal-of-honor-recipients-are-entitled-to-get/
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Here's the announcement - media.defense.gov - which is actually pretty nuanced.
Wounded Knee was an unholy mess and there's no question fleeing Lakota were pursued and killed far from the site of initial action. So even by the standards for awarding the medal in effect in 1890, the question revolves around behaviors of those 20 recipients that day in December 1890. The frontier army itself was divided at the time about the whole Ghost Dance campaign, and especially what happened at Wounded Knee. The medals may have been a way of trying to end that discussion.
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