October 27, 2025

Lakota riders arrive at the government building where they will meet Brad Upton, descendant of the commander of the Wounded Knee massacre on the Cheyenne River reservation in Eagle Butte, S.D., Nov. 6, 2019. Bishop Scott E. Bullock of Rapid City, S.D., and the state's Jesuits, have condemned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's decision to retain the Medal of Honor for the U.S. soldiers that massacred 300 Lakota people at Wounded Knee in 1890. (OSV News photo/Stephanie Keith, Reuters)

Bishop, Jesuits reject Hegseth decision to honor soldiers who massacred Lakota

A South Dakota bishop and a Jesuit community in that state have countered a recent decision by the nation’s top defense official to retain awards for soldiers who killed hundreds of Indigenous civilians in a late 19th-century attack.

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