29, 1890. “I have never heard of a more brutal, cold-blooded massacre than that at Wounded Knee,” Maj. Gen. Nelson Miles, who took over the 7 th Cavalry after the noncombatant deaths came to ...
Sunday marked 134 years since a "brutal, cold-blooded massacre" of the Indigenous Lakota Sioux people of the Great Plains, a tragedy that drew more scrutiny from the U.S. government in recent months.
Adding insult to injury, some 20 U.S. Cavalry soldiers were awarded Medals of Honor for their actions during the massacre. These commendations, meant to recognize acts of heroism, instead glorified ...
The Western looks set for new levels of brutality in gnarly new Netflix series American Primeval. Starring Betty Gilpin and Taylor Kitsch, the series has been likened to Cormac McCarthy’s Blood ...
Three months after the massacre, the first Medal of Honor for ... you might assume that every member of the 7th Cavalry, you know, just stood up and executed Lakota. And that is not what the ...
Either way, a shot rang out and the massacre began ... “To say that it was a most daring feat, 120 Indians attacking 500 cavalry, expresses the situation but faintly,” the Globe-Democrat ...