Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has decided that U.S. soldiers who received Medals of Honor for the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre will keep them, ending a review begun under the Biden administration. The massacre, in which Army forces killed hundreds of Lakota Sioux—many of them women and children—has long been condemned as one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history.

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Hegseth, a close Trump ally, has paired the decision with efforts to restore Confederate names and imagery to military bases, reversing reforms meant to distance the armed forces from symbols of racial violence and oppression.

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