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Remove the Stain Act Re-Introduced: Bill Would Revoke Medals of Honor Awarded for Wounded Knee Massacre

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United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Congressman KaialiÊ»i Kahele (D-Hawaii) reintroduced the Remove the Stain Act. The bill would revoke the Medal of Honor from the soldiers who perpetrated the Wounded Knee massacre on December 29, 1890, when U.S. soldiers slaughtered hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children-most of them unarmed-on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. Continue reading →

Congress Introduces “Remove the Stain Act” to Rescind Medals of Honor awarded for the Wounded Knee Massacre

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Native American groups are asking Congress to rescind 20 Medals of Honor bestowed on American troops who massacred hundreds of women and children at Wounded Knee Creek more than a century ago. Continue reading →

7 Acts of Native Resistance They Don’t Teach in School

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The history of people indigenous to the North American continent is often glossed over in education. We are badgered with the legend of Native benevolence to the pilgrims who landed on the east coast on Thanksgiving. If Indigenous history is covered, students are likely to hear a tragic but vague narrative of massacre, disease, and death, a narrative devoid of the specific political and tribal context Continue reading →

Mass Killings, Native Erasure by Matt Remle

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Upon his arrival into the “New World” Columbus and his crew unleashed a vicious and relentless wave of violence against the Indigenous populations. From enslavement, to mass rapes, to mass killings Columbus and his men inflicted grotesque levels of violence never before seen in the Western hemisphere. Continue reading →