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The usual suspects are once again pressing with Lawmakers took a step last week towards taking back the nation\u2019s highest award for valor from Army troops who perpetrated one of the most infamous Native American massacres in U.S. history.<\/p>\n The legislation to revoke the medals passed the House of Representatives as an amendment to the fiscal 2023 defense policy bill. Similar attempts have made it this far before, however, only to be stymied during compromises between the House and Senate versions of the bill.<\/p>\n Some 20 soldiers received the Medal of Honor following the Dec. 29, 1890, massacre near Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, where troops from the 7th Cavalry and accompanying artillery units killed hundreds of Lakota men, women and children.<\/p>\n The U.S. troops had nearly completed confiscating weapons from a Lakota encampment when a struggle with a reportedly deaf man sparked a chaotic one-sided firefight.<\/p>\n When the smoke cleared, dozens of cavalry troopers were wounded or killed by friendly fire \u2014 likely from their artillery \u2014 and hundreds of Lakota were dead.<\/p>\n Rep. Kaiali?i Kahele, D-Hawaii, was the legislation\u2019s primary sponsor, though other members of Congress, like Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Reuben Gallego, D-Ariz., have pushed for similar legislation in the past. Kahele is a Native Hawaiian.<\/p>\n Dubbed the \u201cRemove the Stain Act,\u201d the legislation\u2019s advocates, which include more than a dozen Native American tribes and groups, say it\u2019s a long-overdue step to right a historical wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n More at the source.<\/p>\n I’ve previously written about one Wounded Knee-related Medal of Honor. Private William Othello Wilson<\/a>, who was a corporal at the time of his gallantry in action, was not involved in the massacre. He was hundreds of miles away. This man, the last black man to have received the honor for actions on American soil, is always listed among the “Stain” as the Congresswoman calls it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"revising<\/del> correcting history. Army Times has the story<\/a>;<\/p>\n