This year that it will investigate 20 Medals of Honour given to troops who participated in the massacre. A five-member group was instructed by Defence Secretary Lloyd.
Austin to provide recommendations by October 15; however, the findings have not yet been made public. What took place at the Massacre at Wounded Knee?
According to History.com, the Indigenous Lakota Sioux people of the Great Plains were placed on government reservations during the start of the last decade of the 19th century.
In the Black Hills of what is now South Dakota, European invaders took their territory and sought gold riches, destroying their hunting livelihoods and culture.
According to History.com, the year 1890 would only make their misery worse by bringing with it a protracted drought as well as epidemics of whooping cough, measles, and influenza.
A dance routine that followers thought would eventually cause an uprising in which their enemies would be driven out and their once-free life restored gave many people hope while their world fell apart around them.
