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“To know that there’s going to be kids able to go into their school to see somebody that looks like them -- that’s positive. That means so much.”

Marcella Rose LeBeau, a tribal citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux, lived a long life that was spent in service to others–in Indian Country and beyond–as a nurse, tribal councilor, and advocate. Born in Promise, South Dakota, her grandmother gave her Native name: Wigmunke’ Waste Win’, which means Pretty Rainbow Woman. Upon receiving a Leadership Award from the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) during its winter session in Washington, D.C. in February 2020, LeBeau, 100, told a moving story of having treated a soldier, a tribal citizen of the Rosebud Siou...

After soldiers killed women and children at the end of the Indian Wars, the soldiers received the military’s highest award.

Medals of Honor were given for killing Lakota women and children.

Efforts to remove the stain of individual soldiers at Wounded Knee actually do a disservice to history because it judges the actions that Congress cannot know fully more than 130 years later, writes columnist Ed Saunders.