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A monument erected to victims of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre stands in the middle of the memorial and cemetery on June 30, 2024. (Makenzie Huber\/South Dakota Searchlight)<\/p>\n

A man who served on the panel that reviewed medals awarded for the Wounded Knee Massacre said a majority of the members focused on individual soldier conduct at the expense of the broader issue: whether any medals should be awarded for a massacre.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wizipan Little Elk Garriott, a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, told South Dakota Searchlight this week that he served on the review panel. He was the Department of the Interior\u2019s principal deputy assistant secretary for Indian affairs at the time, and was one of the department\u2019s two panel members.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He said the other three members of the panel represented the Department of Defense.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey were looking for evidence that individuals committed war crimes, essentially,\u201d Garriott said. \u201cThe broader question \u2014 that this was a massacre in which women and children were killed and therefore not deserving of medals \u2014 was simply not part of the conversation.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wizipan Little Elk Garriott, president of NDN Collective and previously the Department of the Interior\u2019s principal deputy assistant secretary for Indian affairs. (Courtesy of NDN Collective)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The Department of Defense <\/span>created<\/span><\/a> the panel and undertook the review last year during the Biden administration, but the administration never announced or published the panel\u2019s findings or recommendations. President Donald Trump\u2019s Defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, <\/span>announced<\/span><\/a> last week that Medals of Honor awarded for the massacre will not be rescinded. He called the massacre a \u201cbattle\u201d and said the soldiers \u201cdeserve those medals.\u201d He cited the panel\u2019s work as justification.<\/span><\/p>\n

Garriott said the Department of Defense representatives on the review panel prevented consideration of records containing eyewitness accounts from Lakota massacre survivors,<\/span> ignored the illegality of soldiers trespassing in an area reserved by treaty for Indigenous tribes, and failed to apply the same standards of valor used for Medals of Honor awarded in other engagements.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe military members just kept saying, \u2018Show me evidence that so-and-so killed an innocent person,\u2019\u201d Garriott said.<\/span><\/p>\n

He thought that approach ignored a larger truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou can be brave while being part of a group committing a heinous act,\u201d he said. \u201cThat does not mean you should get a medal for it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Massacre history<\/h4>\n

The massacre occurred in 1890, after years of conflict between the Lakota nation and the U.S. government had ended with many Lakota people ordered onto reservations. On Dec. 29 of that year, a large group of Lakota people traveling to the Pine Ridge Agency in southwestern South Dakota made camp near Wounded Knee Creek, where they were surrounded by hundreds of Army soldiers. A shot rang out while the soldiers tried to disarm the camp, and the soldiers opened fire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fewer than 40 soldiers were killed (some by friendly fire, according to historians), while estimates of Lakota deaths ran from 200 to 300 or more, depending on the source, including men, women and children. After some of the bodies froze on the ground for several days, a military-led burial party placed them in a mass grave.<\/span><\/p>\n

One hundred years later in 1990, Congress passed a <\/span>resolution<\/span><\/a> expressing \u201cdeep regret\u201d for the massacre.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Department of Defense said last year that \u201capproximately 20\u201d soldiers received a Medal of Honor for participating in the massacre. The number is approximate because historical records associated with some of the medals are incomplete or unclear. The department did not immediately respond to a request for comment this week.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hegseth references unreleased report<\/h4>\n

The review panel ultimately voted 3-2 against rescinding any medals, Garriott said, with the three majority votes coming from the Defense panelists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a <\/span>social media video<\/span><\/a> last week, Hegseth held a report that he said the review panel produced. The department has not published the report and has not fulfilled South Dakota Searchlight\u2019s request for a copy. South Dakota state Rep. Peri Pourier, R-Rapid City, who is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, said Thursday in a news release that she plans to propose a legislative resolution urging the Department of Defense to release the full, unredacted findings of the panel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Garriott said he does not have a copy of the report. He left the Department of the Interior when the Biden administration ended and now works as president of NDN Collective, a Rapid City-based nonprofit that advocates for Indigenous people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Garriott said the process felt rushed, lasting only a few months and requiring panelists to squeeze meetings between their full-time jobs. When members visited the Wounded Knee Massacre site in person, only one of the Defense panelists attended, Garriott said, and the panel limited historical testimony to Department of Defense historians.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Garriott said he blames not only the Department of Defense but also former President Joe Biden and his top advisers for the outcome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis historical wrong could have been made right, but they chose not to,\u201d Garriott said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe, was the secretary of Interior at the time and is now running for governor of New Mexico. She released a statement on social media after Hegseth\u2019s announcement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAwarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice,\u201d Haaland said. \u201cStanding at the gravesite with descendants of those victims brought home to me how the trauma of that day still lingers in the community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Congressional legislation pending<\/h4>\n

Despite Hegseth\u2019s declaration that the matter is \u201cfinal,\u201d Garriott said Lakota people will continue to press for rescinding the medals. Multiple efforts to rescind the medals through congressional action have failed, but U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, introduced another <\/span>bill<\/span><\/a> to do so this year. Members of Congress from South Dakota have not sponsored or cosponsored those bills.<\/span><\/p>\n

The South Dakota delegation is supporting separate legislation that would add protections for the massacre site. That legislation would place 40 acres of tribally owned land at the site in restricted-fee status, which means it could not be sold, taxed, gifted or leased without congressional and tribal approval.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Committee on Indian Affairs has advanced the <\/span>Senate version of the bill<\/span><\/a>, sponsored by Sen. Mike Rounds and cosponsored by Majority Leader John Thune. Rep. Dusty Johnson is the sponsor of an <\/span>identical bill<\/span><\/a> that passed the House of Representatives in January.<\/span><\/p>\n

South Dakota Searchlight\u2019s Seth Tupper contributed to this report.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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Reaction to Hegseth announcement<\/h4>\n

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s announcement that he would not rescind medals awarded for the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre sparked reactions from many Native American leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

The National Congress of American Indians <\/span>said in a press release<\/span><\/a> that Wounded Knee was not a \u201cbattle.\u201d The alliance called it the \u201cintentional mass killing\u201d of Lakota men, women and children \u201cseeking safety from invading U.S. soldiers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHonoring those involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre with the United States\u2019 highest military award is incompatible with the values the Medal of Honor is meant to represent,\u201d Executive Director Larry Wright Jr. said in a statement. \u201cCelebrating war crimes is not patriotic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Frank Star Comes Out, president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, issued a statement saying \u201cSecretary Hegseth\u2019s refusal is despicable, untruthful and insulting to the Great Sioux Nation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Chairwoman Janet Alkire said the massacre was \u201can unprovoked attack on men, women, children and elders who had been rounded up by the military.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe actions at Wounded Knee were not acts of bravery and valor deserving of the Medal of Honor,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cThere is nothing Hegseth can do to rewrite the truth of that day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Chairman Ryman LeBeau called the massacre \u201cone of the darkest days in U.S. history.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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This story was originally produced by South Dakota Searchlight<\/a>, which is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network which includes Missouri Independent, and is supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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