#woundedknee — Public Fediverse posts
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‘The cavalry’s coming!’: Indigenous activism from 1492 to Standing Rock
Famed Indigenous activists like Leonard Peltier and Madonna Thunder Hawk and younger activists shared their thoughts with ICT about the evolution of Indigenous activism from the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s to Standing Rock and beyond.
by Kevin Abourezk, May 11, 2026
#CannonballND – "The field is serene. The blades of brown grass, not yet awakened by spring rains, sway gently. In the distance, the #MissouriRiver cuts a blue streak across the unbroken plains. The silence is punctuated only by the sound of passing cars and the low hum of rushing water in nearby #CannonballRiver.
"But if you listen carefully, you can hear defiant voices shouting and then screaming.
"Ten years ago, this land exploded.
"For nearly a year, from April 2016 to February 2017, thousands of people stood strong against #MilitarizedPolice, #FederalTroops and #PrivateSecurityForces [#Blackwater] hired to protect the 1,176-mile #DakotaAccessPipeline. They gathered to resist a private corporation’s efforts to build a pipeline less than a mile from the #StandingRockSioux Reservation near the #NorthDakota-#SouthDakota border.
"In the end, they were forced to evacuate their camps as authorities quieted, but never fully extinguished, the uprising. Some would say the fire that ignited at #StandingRock was lit decades earlier by #NativeActivists who fought oppression and violence in the 1960s and 1970s.
"While Native people have resisted #colonization and its impacts since 1492, the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s marked a turning point in the efforts of Native people to join together and speak in one voice. That torch of resistance was carried all the way from places like #AlcatrazIsland and #WoundedKnee to a field near the Missouri River in 2016.
"The #NoDAPL movement reached its height on Nov. 20, 2016, when hundreds of water protectors gathered on a bridge to clear two burned-out trucks that impeded a public roadway that provided access to the pipeline drill site and to the camp. The confrontation was the most violent clash between water protectors and authorities during the protest and led to nearly 200 people being injured, some seriously."
Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/the-cavalrys-coming-indigenous-activism-from-1492-to-standing-rock/#USPol #NativeAmericanActivism #StandWithStandingRock #NativeAmericanHistory #Resistance #IndigenousResistance #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
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‘The cavalry’s coming!’: Indigenous activism from 1492 to Standing Rock
Famed Indigenous activists like Leonard Peltier and Madonna Thunder Hawk and younger activists shared their thoughts with ICT about the evolution of Indigenous activism from the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s to Standing Rock and beyond.
by Kevin Abourezk, May 11, 2026
#CannonballND – "The field is serene. The blades of brown grass, not yet awakened by spring rains, sway gently. In the distance, the #MissouriRiver cuts a blue streak across the unbroken plains. The silence is punctuated only by the sound of passing cars and the low hum of rushing water in nearby #CannonballRiver.
"But if you listen carefully, you can hear defiant voices shouting and then screaming.
"Ten years ago, this land exploded.
"For nearly a year, from April 2016 to February 2017, thousands of people stood strong against #MilitarizedPolice, #FederalTroops and #PrivateSecurityForces [#Blackwater] hired to protect the 1,176-mile #DakotaAccessPipeline. They gathered to resist a private corporation’s efforts to build a pipeline less than a mile from the #StandingRockSioux Reservation near the #NorthDakota-#SouthDakota border.
"In the end, they were forced to evacuate their camps as authorities quieted, but never fully extinguished, the uprising. Some would say the fire that ignited at #StandingRock was lit decades earlier by #NativeActivists who fought oppression and violence in the 1960s and 1970s.
"While Native people have resisted #colonization and its impacts since 1492, the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s marked a turning point in the efforts of Native people to join together and speak in one voice. That torch of resistance was carried all the way from places like #AlcatrazIsland and #WoundedKnee to a field near the Missouri River in 2016.
"The #NoDAPL movement reached its height on Nov. 20, 2016, when hundreds of water protectors gathered on a bridge to clear two burned-out trucks that impeded a public roadway that provided access to the pipeline drill site and to the camp. The confrontation was the most violent clash between water protectors and authorities during the protest and led to nearly 200 people being injured, some seriously."
Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/the-cavalrys-coming-indigenous-activism-from-1492-to-standing-rock/#USPol #NativeAmericanActivism #StandWithStandingRock #NativeAmericanHistory #Resistance #IndigenousResistance #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
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‘The cavalry’s coming!’: Indigenous activism from 1492 to Standing Rock
Famed Indigenous activists like Leonard Peltier and Madonna Thunder Hawk and younger activists shared their thoughts with ICT about the evolution of Indigenous activism from the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s to Standing Rock and beyond.
by Kevin Abourezk, May 11, 2026
#CannonballND – "The field is serene. The blades of brown grass, not yet awakened by spring rains, sway gently. In the distance, the #MissouriRiver cuts a blue streak across the unbroken plains. The silence is punctuated only by the sound of passing cars and the low hum of rushing water in nearby #CannonballRiver.
"But if you listen carefully, you can hear defiant voices shouting and then screaming.
"Ten years ago, this land exploded.
"For nearly a year, from April 2016 to February 2017, thousands of people stood strong against #MilitarizedPolice, #FederalTroops and #PrivateSecurityForces [#Blackwater] hired to protect the 1,176-mile #DakotaAccessPipeline. They gathered to resist a private corporation’s efforts to build a pipeline less than a mile from the #StandingRockSioux Reservation near the #NorthDakota-#SouthDakota border.
"In the end, they were forced to evacuate their camps as authorities quieted, but never fully extinguished, the uprising. Some would say the fire that ignited at #StandingRock was lit decades earlier by #NativeActivists who fought oppression and violence in the 1960s and 1970s.
"While Native people have resisted #colonization and its impacts since 1492, the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s marked a turning point in the efforts of Native people to join together and speak in one voice. That torch of resistance was carried all the way from places like #AlcatrazIsland and #WoundedKnee to a field near the Missouri River in 2016.
"The #NoDAPL movement reached its height on Nov. 20, 2016, when hundreds of water protectors gathered on a bridge to clear two burned-out trucks that impeded a public roadway that provided access to the pipeline drill site and to the camp. The confrontation was the most violent clash between water protectors and authorities during the protest and led to nearly 200 people being injured, some seriously."
Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/the-cavalrys-coming-indigenous-activism-from-1492-to-standing-rock/#USPol #NativeAmericanActivism #StandWithStandingRock #NativeAmericanHistory #Resistance #IndigenousResistance #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
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‘The cavalry’s coming!’: Indigenous activism from 1492 to Standing Rock
Famed Indigenous activists like Leonard Peltier and Madonna Thunder Hawk and younger activists shared their thoughts with ICT about the evolution of Indigenous activism from the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s to Standing Rock and beyond.
by Kevin Abourezk, May 11, 2026
#CannonballND – "The field is serene. The blades of brown grass, not yet awakened by spring rains, sway gently. In the distance, the #MissouriRiver cuts a blue streak across the unbroken plains. The silence is punctuated only by the sound of passing cars and the low hum of rushing water in nearby #CannonballRiver.
"But if you listen carefully, you can hear defiant voices shouting and then screaming.
"Ten years ago, this land exploded.
"For nearly a year, from April 2016 to February 2017, thousands of people stood strong against #MilitarizedPolice, #FederalTroops and #PrivateSecurityForces [#Blackwater] hired to protect the 1,176-mile #DakotaAccessPipeline. They gathered to resist a private corporation’s efforts to build a pipeline less than a mile from the #StandingRockSioux Reservation near the #NorthDakota-#SouthDakota border.
"In the end, they were forced to evacuate their camps as authorities quieted, but never fully extinguished, the uprising. Some would say the fire that ignited at #StandingRock was lit decades earlier by #NativeActivists who fought oppression and violence in the 1960s and 1970s.
"While Native people have resisted #colonization and its impacts since 1492, the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s marked a turning point in the efforts of Native people to join together and speak in one voice. That torch of resistance was carried all the way from places like #AlcatrazIsland and #WoundedKnee to a field near the Missouri River in 2016.
"The #NoDAPL movement reached its height on Nov. 20, 2016, when hundreds of water protectors gathered on a bridge to clear two burned-out trucks that impeded a public roadway that provided access to the pipeline drill site and to the camp. The confrontation was the most violent clash between water protectors and authorities during the protest and led to nearly 200 people being injured, some seriously."
Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/the-cavalrys-coming-indigenous-activism-from-1492-to-standing-rock/#USPol #NativeAmericanActivism #StandWithStandingRock #NativeAmericanHistory #Resistance #IndigenousResistance #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
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‘The cavalry’s coming!’: Indigenous activism from 1492 to Standing Rock
Famed Indigenous activists like Leonard Peltier and Madonna Thunder Hawk and younger activists shared their thoughts with ICT about the evolution of Indigenous activism from the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s to Standing Rock and beyond.
by Kevin Abourezk, May 11, 2026
#CannonballND – "The field is serene. The blades of brown grass, not yet awakened by spring rains, sway gently. In the distance, the #MissouriRiver cuts a blue streak across the unbroken plains. The silence is punctuated only by the sound of passing cars and the low hum of rushing water in nearby #CannonballRiver.
"But if you listen carefully, you can hear defiant voices shouting and then screaming.
"Ten years ago, this land exploded.
"For nearly a year, from April 2016 to February 2017, thousands of people stood strong against #MilitarizedPolice, #FederalTroops and #PrivateSecurityForces [#Blackwater] hired to protect the 1,176-mile #DakotaAccessPipeline. They gathered to resist a private corporation’s efforts to build a pipeline less than a mile from the #StandingRockSioux Reservation near the #NorthDakota-#SouthDakota border.
"In the end, they were forced to evacuate their camps as authorities quieted, but never fully extinguished, the uprising. Some would say the fire that ignited at #StandingRock was lit decades earlier by #NativeActivists who fought oppression and violence in the 1960s and 1970s.
"While Native people have resisted #colonization and its impacts since 1492, the rise of the American Indian Movement in the 1960s marked a turning point in the efforts of Native people to join together and speak in one voice. That torch of resistance was carried all the way from places like #AlcatrazIsland and #WoundedKnee to a field near the Missouri River in 2016.
"The #NoDAPL movement reached its height on Nov. 20, 2016, when hundreds of water protectors gathered on a bridge to clear two burned-out trucks that impeded a public roadway that provided access to the pipeline drill site and to the camp. The confrontation was the most violent clash between water protectors and authorities during the protest and led to nearly 200 people being injured, some seriously."
Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/the-cavalrys-coming-indigenous-activism-from-1492-to-standing-rock/#USPol #NativeAmericanActivism #StandWithStandingRock #NativeAmericanHistory #Resistance #IndigenousResistance #Colonialism #CorporateColonialism
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗕𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗻𝗲𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 -
This copy I read over 40 years ago now (dang), and it's overdue for a refresh; this was my first history reading that pushed hard against my Western-mythicized education. Even so, this white author was 20 years before Vizenor's concept of "survivance."
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #reading #history #nonfiction #deebrown #woundedknee
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗕𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗻𝗲𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 -
This copy I read over 40 years ago now (dang), and it's overdue for a refresh; this was my first history reading that pushed hard against my Western-mythicized education. Even so, this white author was 20 years before Vizenor's concept of "survivance."
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #reading #history #nonfiction #deebrown #woundedknee
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗕𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗻𝗲𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 -
This copy I read over 40 years ago now (dang), and it's overdue for a refresh; this was my first history reading that pushed hard against my Western-mythicized education. Even so, this white author was 20 years before Vizenor's concept of "survivance."
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #reading #history #nonfiction #deebrown #woundedknee
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗕𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗻𝗲𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 -
This copy I read over 40 years ago now (dang), and it's overdue for a refresh; this was my first history reading that pushed hard against my Western-mythicized education. Even so, this white author was 20 years before Vizenor's concept of "survivance."
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #reading #history #nonfiction #deebrown #woundedknee
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗕𝘂𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗞𝗻𝗲𝗲" 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗼𝘄𝗻 -
This copy I read over 40 years ago now (dang), and it's overdue for a refresh; this was my first history reading that pushed hard against my Western-mythicized education. Even so, this white author was 20 years before Vizenor's concept of "survivance."
#books #bookreviews #bookworm #readreadread #tbr #tbrpile #tbrlist #reading #history #nonfiction #deebrown #woundedknee
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"Revolution from the Heart of Nature," #Bioneers 2026. #RobertFree was on the Trail of Broken Treaties, the takeover of the BIA building in Washington, the Occupation of #WoundedKnee. “In the early days the #SierraClub and environmental organizations didn't want input from #Indigenous People in regards to national parks and monuments." Today, this is changing.
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/04/indigenous-youths-reclaiming-waters-and.html#more
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"Revolution from the Heart of Nature," #Bioneers 2026. #RobertFree was on the Trail of Broken Treaties, the takeover of the BIA building in Washington, the Occupation of #WoundedKnee. “In the early days the #SierraClub and environmental organizations didn't want input from #Indigenous People in regards to national parks and monuments." Today, this is changing.
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/04/indigenous-youths-reclaiming-waters-and.html#more
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"Revolution from the Heart of Nature," #Bioneers 2026. #RobertFree was on the Trail of Broken Treaties, the takeover of the BIA building in Washington, the Occupation of #WoundedKnee. “In the early days the #SierraClub and environmental organizations didn't want input from #Indigenous People in regards to national parks and monuments." Today, this is changing.
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/04/indigenous-youths-reclaiming-waters-and.html#more
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"Revolution from the Heart of Nature," #Bioneers 2026. #RobertFree was on the Trail of Broken Treaties, the takeover of the BIA building in Washington, the Occupation of #WoundedKnee. “In the early days the #SierraClub and environmental organizations didn't want input from #Indigenous People in regards to national parks and monuments." Today, this is changing.
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/04/indigenous-youths-reclaiming-waters-and.html#more
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"Revolution from the Heart of Nature," #Bioneers 2026. #RobertFree was on the Trail of Broken Treaties, the takeover of the BIA building in Washington, the Occupation of #WoundedKnee. “In the early days the #SierraClub and environmental organizations didn't want input from #Indigenous People in regards to national parks and monuments." Today, this is changing.
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/04/indigenous-youths-reclaiming-waters-and.html#more
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February 27, 1973 - Hundreds of Oglala Lakota Sioux and members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) occupied the village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
Angered over a long history of violated treaties, mistreatment, family dismemberment, cultural destruction, discrimination, and impoverishment through confiscation of resources, they particularly demanded the U.S. live up to the terms of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. That treaty recognized the Sioux as an independent nation in the western half of South Dakota. Additionally, there had been a recent campaign of harassment and violence by tribal and FBI officials. Wounded Knee was chosen because of the 1890 massacre there of several hundred men, women and children by U.S. troops. The occupation lasted until May.
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A U.S. flag flies upside-down outside a church occupied by members of the #American Indian Movement (AIM) on March 3, 1973, on the site of the 1890 massacre at #WoundedKnee, S.D.
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December 29, 1890 - The U.S. Army killed approximately 300 Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee, in the new state of South Dakota. The 7th Cavalry (Custer's old command) fired their artillery amidst mostly unarmed women, children, and fleeing men. The Wounded Knee Massacre historically considered the final major military battle in the genocide against Native Americans. 20 soldiers received Congressional Medals of Honor for their "bravery.”
Encroaching white settlement after gold was found in 1874 on Sioux lands led to conflicts. The Great Sioux Agreement of 1889 established reservations for the native inhabitants and encouraged further white settlement on Indian land.
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Western South Dakota Catholic leaders about the Wounded Knee medals:
“Those who died at Wounded Knee are sacred. Jesus stands with all who suffer and die at the hands of others."
“Those who committed the violence are also sacred...Jesus offers them mercy and healing. Yet the acts themselves were grave evils and cannot be honored.”
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Western South Dakota Catholic leaders about the Wounded Knee medals:
“Those who died at Wounded Knee are sacred. Jesus stands with all who suffer and die at the hands of others."
“Those who committed the violence are also sacred...Jesus offers them mercy and healing. Yet the acts themselves were grave evils and cannot be honored.”
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What Pete Hegseth Could Learn from Buffalo Bill
Last month, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that he was cancelling the Pentagon’s review of the Medals of…
#UnitedStates #US #USA #AvrolLooking-Hourse #BuffaloBill #DebHaaland #defensedepartment #Død #JoeBiden #Lakota #LloydAustin #MedalsofHonor #NativeAmericanhistory #pentagon #petehegseth #SecretaryofDefense #secretary-of-war #SittingBull #SOUTHDAKOTA #U.S.military #woundedknee
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Hegseth's decision on Wounded Knee medals sparks outrage in Native American communities
https://zurl.co/TjSB1#northeastradiosd #southdakota #northeastradiosdnews
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Without a shadow of a doubt, Death to Amerikkka.
https://truthout.org/articles/with-wounded-knee-medals-trump-admin-suggests-theres-valor-in-genocide/
#Lakota #WoundedKnee #genocide #USA -
#WoundedKnee #Indigenous #FistNations #Genocide #Massacre #MedalofHonor #Hegseth #Cruelty #alt
Via theserfstv.bsky.social:
US soldiers opened fire on a group of mostly unarmed women children and elders in the Wounded Knee Massacre slaughtering over 300 Lakota civilians. Survivors witnessed troops chasing down children running away to butcher them.
Only a nazi regime would want to honor
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#WoundedKnee #Indigenous #FistNations #Genocide #Massacre #MedalofHonor #Hegseth #Cruelty #alt
Via theserfstv.bsky.social:
US soldiers opened fire on a group of mostly unarmed women children and elders in the Wounded Knee Massacre slaughtering over 300 Lakota civilians. Survivors witnessed troops chasing down children running away to butcher them.
Only a nazi regime would want to honor
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#WoundedKnee #Indigenous #FistNations #Genocide #Massacre #MedalofHonor #Hegseth #Cruelty #alt
Via theserfstv.bsky.social:
US soldiers opened fire on a group of mostly unarmed women children and elders in the Wounded Knee Massacre slaughtering over 300 Lakota civilians. Survivors witnessed troops chasing down children running away to butcher them.
Only a nazi regime would want to honor
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#WoundedKnee #Indigenous #FistNations #Genocide #Massacre #MedalofHonor #Hegseth #Cruelty #alt
Via theserfstv.bsky.social:
US soldiers opened fire on a group of mostly unarmed women children and elders in the Wounded Knee Massacre slaughtering over 300 Lakota civilians. Survivors witnessed troops chasing down children running away to butcher them.
Only a nazi regime would want to honor
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#WoundedKnee #Indigenous #FistNations #Genocide #Massacre #MedalofHonor #Hegseth #Cruelty #alt
Via theserfstv.bsky.social:
US soldiers opened fire on a group of mostly unarmed women children and elders in the Wounded Knee Massacre slaughtering over 300 Lakota civilians. Survivors witnessed troops chasing down children running away to butcher them.
Only a nazi regime would want to honor
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"Hegseth: “Under my direction, the soldiers who fought at the Battle of #WoundedKnee will keep their medals. This decision is final. Their place in history is settled.”
The Atlantic's James Surowiecki: “We gave 10 Medals of Honor to US troops who landed in Normandy and fought the Germans on D-Day. We gave 20 Medals of Honor - twice as many - to US cavalrymen who killed hundreds of Lakota, most of them women and children, at Wounded Knee. That’s absurd and embarrassing.”
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-politics-bulletin-215-92725
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#Hegseth, #WoundedKnee, and #Tariffs by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/september-26-2025
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"Why defend Medals for Wounded Knee massacre?" Heather Cox Richardson exposes Defense Secretary Hegseth’s choice to uphold 20 controversial honors amid long calls for justice. The 1890 tragedy unfolded through political greed, mishandling, and Lakota suffering. This decision echoes a troubling cycle of ignoring accountability for political expediency. Read the full analysis here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-26-2025 #WoundedKnee #HistoricalJustice #MilitaryHonors #HeatherCoxRichardson
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"Why defend Medals for Wounded Knee massacre?" Heather Cox Richardson exposes Defense Secretary Hegseth’s choice to uphold 20 controversial honors amid long calls for justice. The 1890 tragedy unfolded through political greed, mishandling, and Lakota suffering. This decision echoes a troubling cycle of ignoring accountability for political expediency. Read the full analysis here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-26-2025 #WoundedKnee #HistoricalJustice #MilitaryHonors #HeatherCoxRichardson
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"Why defend Medals for Wounded Knee massacre?" Heather Cox Richardson exposes Defense Secretary Hegseth’s choice to uphold 20 controversial honors amid long calls for justice. The 1890 tragedy unfolded through political greed, mishandling, and Lakota suffering. This decision echoes a troubling cycle of ignoring accountability for political expediency. Read the full analysis here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-26-2025 #WoundedKnee #HistoricalJustice #MilitaryHonors #HeatherCoxRichardson
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“Many of those killed were women and children trying to flee the onslaught of bullets from soldiers who had surrounded the camp”, https://19thnews.org/2025/09/wounded-knee-soldiers-medals-of-honor-hegseth/
“we’re making it clear that they deserve those medals […], we honor their service”, Pete Hegseth
Yeah, this is what you can expect from the ministry formerly known as defense
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Trash.
https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115268389298095536
[email protected] - Defense Secy #PeteHegseth has announced that he has decided that the 20 soldiers who received the Medal of *Honor* for their actions in 1890 at #WoundedKnee will keep their awards in a video posted to social media Thursday evening.#WoundedKneeMassacre #NativeAmerican #Lakota #Sioux #SouthDakota #PineRidge #massacre #USArmy #WhiteSupremacy #genocide #EthnicCleansing
https://apnews.com/article/wounded-knee-hegseth-soldiers-medal-of-honor-0310c47952ad7aeabb176f94d8af4d52 -
Hegseth says Wounded Knee soldiers will keep their Medals of Honor
https://apnews.com/article/wounded-knee-hegseth-soldiers-medal-of-honor-0310c47952ad7aeabb176f94d8af4d52Here is an account of what the American Army heroes did at Wounded Knee, from the Wikipedia account. They butchered mostly disarmed men, and turned their Hotchkiss 42 mm gun on women and children in the Lakota camp's tipis. Various estimates of the Lakota casualties report 150-300 dead, plus many (mostly women and children) wounded. The US Army lost 25, many believed to have been killed by their own fire. It was a massacre by the US Army, and is most honestly reported as such.
Dee Brown, in Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee, quotes Lakota woman Louise Weasel Bear, who was there. "We tried to run, but they shot us like buffalo."
#WoundedKnee #Massacre #USArmy #MedalOfHonor #DepartmentOfWar #WarCrimes #Hegseth
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/26/hegseth-wounded-knee-medals-honor/
It shouldn't surprise us that an administration that regularly violates the laws of war (such as by attacking random ships in the Caribbean that they claim are carrying drugs --- without a trial of course) would feel the need to continue to valorize war criminals and butchers of the past.
Excerpt: The administration of President Joe Biden ordered a review of 20 medals that were given to soldiers who participated in the massacre, during which the U.S. Army’s 7th Cavalry opened fire on hundreds of Native Americans. The troops killed an estimated 350 Lakota people in an area of South Dakota that is now part of the Pine Ridge Reservation.
In a video posted on social media, Hegseth said the review found the soldiers should keep the medals but that his predecessor at the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, was “more interested in being politically correct than historically correct.”
“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 deserve those medals,” Hegseth said.
. . . “We cannot be a country that celebrates and rewards horrifying acts of violence,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts), a supporter of the legislation, said in a statement Friday. “With this announcement, Secretary Hegseth is valorizing people who committed a massacre.”
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #WoundedKnee #Hegsheth. #USA, #MedalOfHonor #Military #USMilitary #USArmy
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced that the 20 soldiers awarded the Medal of Honor for their roles in the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre—where U.S. troops killed 150-300 Lakota, including women and children—will keep their medals, ending a review ordered by his predecessor. Hegseth stated they “deserve those medals,” despite a 2022 congressional push to rescind them and growing calls to address historic injustices. Critics highlight that the massacre, originally called a “battle,” involved the killing of surrendered Lakota. Will the decision end the controversy or fuel further demands for reckoning? https://www.thedailybeast.com/pete-hegseth-declares-wounded-knee-massacre-troops-will-keep-medals-of-honor/ #WoundedKnee #MedalOfHonor #Lakota #History #PeteHegseth #IndigenousRights
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Let us not forget…that Wounded Knee was not a battle deserving of medals, but indeed a massacre…
“The Women and Children,” a painting by Charles Her Many Horses for the Takuwe exhibition, 2018
#USPol #PeteHegseth #WoundedKnee #HistoryCanNotBeChanged #USHistory #NativeAmericans #Lakota
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Let us not forget…that Wounded Knee was not a battle deserving of medals, but indeed a massacre…
“The Women and Children,” a painting by Charles Her Many Horses for the Takuwe exhibition, 2018
#USPol #PeteHegseth #WoundedKnee #HistoryCanNotBeChanged #USHistory #NativeAmericans #Lakota
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Let us not forget…that Wounded Knee was not a battle deserving of medals, but indeed a massacre…
“The Women and Children,” a painting by Charles Her Many Horses for the Takuwe exhibition, 2018
#USPol #PeteHegseth #WoundedKnee #HistoryCanNotBeChanged #USHistory #NativeAmericans #Lakota
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Let us not forget…that Wounded Knee was not a battle deserving of medals, but indeed a massacre…
“The Women and Children,” a painting by Charles Her Many Horses for the Takuwe exhibition, 2018
#USPol #PeteHegseth #WoundedKnee #HistoryCanNotBeChanged #USHistory #NativeAmericans #Lakota
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Let us not forget…that Wounded Knee was not a battle deserving of medals, but indeed a massacre…
“The Women and Children,” a painting by Charles Her Many Horses for the Takuwe exhibition, 2018
#USPol #PeteHegseth #WoundedKnee #HistoryCanNotBeChanged #USHistory #NativeAmericans #Lakota
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Well, if massacring women and children gets you a medal of honor, then #BibiIsAWarCriminal deserves one too!
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#Hegseth’s predecessor, General #LloydAustin, 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 #SouthDakota’s #PineRidge #IndianReservation near #WoundedKnee Creek.
#WoundedKneeMassacre #NativeAmerican #Lakota #Sioux #massacre #USArmy #WhiteSupremacy #genocide #EthnicCleansing
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#Hegseth’s predecessor, General #LloydAustin, 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 #SouthDakota’s #PineRidge #IndianReservation near #WoundedKnee Creek.
#WoundedKneeMassacre #NativeAmerican #Lakota #Sioux #massacre #USArmy #WhiteSupremacy #genocide #EthnicCleansing
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#Hegseth’s predecessor, General #LloydAustin, 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 #SouthDakota’s #PineRidge #IndianReservation near #WoundedKnee Creek.
#WoundedKneeMassacre #NativeAmerican #Lakota #Sioux #massacre #USArmy #WhiteSupremacy #genocide #EthnicCleansing
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#Hegseth’s predecessor, General #LloydAustin, 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 #SouthDakota’s #PineRidge #IndianReservation near #WoundedKnee Creek.
#WoundedKneeMassacre #NativeAmerican #Lakota #Sioux #massacre #USArmy #WhiteSupremacy #genocide #EthnicCleansing
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#Hegseth’s predecessor, General #LloydAustin, 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 #SouthDakota’s #PineRidge #IndianReservation near #WoundedKnee Creek.
#WoundedKneeMassacre #NativeAmerican #Lakota #Sioux #massacre #USArmy #WhiteSupremacy #genocide #EthnicCleansing
