Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...

The Wounded Knee Massacre, the murder of Lakota refugees by the U.S. Cavalry in 1890, was inevitable. This atrocity was the culmination of the centuries-long effort by European immigrants to ...

The Ghost Dance movement was started in the 1890's by Wovoka, a Paiute man. The messiah's message declared that there would come a time when the earth would be destroyed, and a new world would be ...

Reprint of the 1896 ed. published by the Govt. Print. Off., Washington, which was issued as pt. 2 of the fourteenth Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, 1892-93, ...

Sometime toward the end of the eighteen-eighties, a Paiute holy man named Wovoka had a vision that promised the rebirth and renewal of Indigenous nations on the North American continent. His prophecy ...

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a Pentagon board to review Medal of Honor awards for troops who participated in the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre, where Native American women and children were ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Thursday evening that soldiers who participated in the 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their Medals of Honor. “Under my direction, we’re making it clear, ...

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon has launched a review that could revoke 20 Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890, marking the military’s latest effort to ...

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Thursday evening that soldiers who fought in the 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee will keep their Medals of Honor. In a video posted on X, Hegseth said, “This ...

Survivors recalled arriving at the Wounded Knee camp three days after the fighting, finding a blizzard had buried the frozen bodies of Lakota men, women, children and infants in snow. They described ...

Airmen visit the Wounded Knee Memorial on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota on Jan. 26, 2024, marking the first time military members were invited to the site. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Tech.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Michael Rounds, R-S.D., urged DOD to loosen a deadline for its review of Medals of Honor awarded for the Wounded Knee Massacre. (National Museum of American ...