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By Gina Christian, OSV News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(OSV News) \u2014 A South Dakota bishop and a Jesuit community in that state have countered a recent decision by the nation\u2019s top defense official to retain awards for soldiers who killed hundreds of Indigenous civilians in a late 19th-century attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bishop Scott E. Bullock<\/a> of Rapid City and the De Smet Jesuit Community of West River issued an Oct. 20 statement on the matter titled \u201cA Faithful Response to the Wounded Knee Decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we deny our part in history, we deepen the harm,\u201d wrote Bishop Bullock and the Jesuit priests in their message, which was posted to the Diocese of Rapid City\u2019s website. \u201cWe cannot lie about the past without perpetuating injustice<\/a> and moral blindness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along with Bishop Bullock, the message\u2019s signatories included five Jesuit priests from the order\u2019s De Smet community \u2014 Father L. Ryen Dwyer, Father Edmund Yainao, Father Phillip Cooke, Father David Mastrangelo and Father Peter J. Klink \u2014 who have extensive experience in serving the Lakota communities (sometimes referred to as \u201cSioux,\u201d from the French-Canadian name broadly applied to three linguistically and regionally different groups).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The signatories called for a reckoning with the attack \u201cgrounded in truth, conscience, and compassion<\/a>.\u201d They noted, \u201cWe acknowledge the government\u2019s intent to honor its troops, yet we reject any narrative that erases the humanity of the victims or glorifies acts of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The statement is a response to a recent announcement by Secretary of War<\/a> Pete Hegseth (who uses the secondary title for the secretary of defense authorized since Sept. 5) that 19 \u201cbrave soldiers\u201d who participated in the massacre at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, should keep their Medals of Honor, the nation\u2019s highest military decoration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hegseth backs medals for Wounded Knee Soldiers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In a minute-long video posted to X Sept. 25, Hegseth held up what he said was a report commissioned in July 2024 by his Biden administration predecessor, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, which sought a reexamination of the medals\u2019 bestowal at Wounded Knee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Such a reexamination was not unprecedented: From 1916-1917, an Army board conducted an audit of the Medal of Honor that saw 911 recipients removed from the rolls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hegseth claimed that Austin\u2019s panel had \u201cconcluded that these brave soldiers should, in fact, rightfully keep their medals from actions in 1890.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, The Associated Press stated Sept. 25 that a defense secretary official \u201ccouldn\u2019t say if the report\u201d Hegseth referenced in the video \u201cwould be made public.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Austin himself had not issued a final decision on the Wounded Knee medals since, Hegseth claimed, \u201che was more interested in being politically correct than historically correct.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Hegseth referred to the Dec. 29, 1890, events at Wounded Knee as a \u201cbattle,\u201d historians and analysts more commonly describe them as a massacre amid systematic U.S. efforts to forcibly relocate and assimilate Indigenous peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Days before the mass killing at Wounded Knee<\/a>, the famous Lakota leader Sitting Bull had been shot dead, and a group of Lakota \u2014 mostly women, children and elders led by Chief Spotted Elk \u2014 were seeking refuge amid winter and a lack of food. Fighters among the group had already surrendered to the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After soldiers attempted to disarm them, gunfire broke out and a massacre ensued, leaving an estimated 200-350 Lakota men, women and children dead. An undated National Park Service brochure notes that then-Col. (and later Maj. Gen.) James W. Forsyth, who led the 7th U.S. Cavalry in the attack \u2014 which saw some 200 rounds fired per minute \u2014 was reported to have shouted, \u201cFor God\u2019s sake, stop shooting them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis was not a battle,\u201d said the Church<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The bodies of the slain Lakota were buried in a mass grave. In 1973, the site \u2014 located on the Pine Ridge Reservation \u2014 was occupied for 71 days by hundreds of Native American activists protesting corruption in tribal leadership as well as the failure of the U.S. government to honor multiple treaties with Native nations<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nicholas Black Elk, a survivor of the massacre who sustained injuries and aided victims, later became Catholic and a lay catechist. Black Elk, a servant of God, is now a candidate for sainthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One hundred years after the killings, Congress issued an apology to victims\u2019 descendants, but retained the medal designations for the soldiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September 2022, the Oglala and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes purchased 40 acres of the land including the Wounded Knee site, agreeing to ask the U.S. Department of the Interior to hold the land in trust on their behalf, with the title to be in the name of the Oglala Sioux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hegseth declared in his video that the soldiers\u2019 \u201cplace in our nation\u2019s history is no longer up for debate,\u201d adding, \u201cWe salute their memory, we honor their service, and we will never forget<\/a> what they did.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, said Bishop Bullock and the De Smet Jesuits, \u201cto recognize these acts as honorable is to distort history itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They stressed that \u201cthe facts of the tragedy at Wounded Knee Creek on December 29, 1890, are clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn that day, U.S. Army soldiers massacred nearly 300 Lakota women, children, and unarmed men. This was not a battle,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Categorical rejection of the Medal of Honor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

They noted that Army Gen. Nelson A. Miles, writing in 1891 just days after the killings, described the Wounded Knee massacre as \u201cthe most abominable, criminal military blunder and a horrible massacre of women<\/a> and children.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1917, Miles repeated his condemnation of the attack in a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, describing the events at Wounded Knee as \u201cmost reprehensible,\u201d \u201cmost unjustifiable,\u201d and \u201cworthy of the severest condemnation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bishop Bullock and the De Smet Jesuits highlighted that their response to Hegseth \u201cis rooted not in \u2018political correctness\u2019 but in prayerful correctness, grounded in truth<\/a>, conscience, and compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Citing their \u201clived experience with the Lakota people \u2014 and the hope they embody,\u201d they said, \u201cwe firmly reject Secretary Hegseth\u2019s decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They endorsed an \u201coverwhelmingly approved\u201d 2024 resolution by the South Dakota Senate determining the Medal of Honor is degraded by its application to the soldiers at Wounded Knee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quoting the resolution, they said allowing the medals to stand \u201cis an implication of hostility and genocide against the Great Sioux Nation and the persons who were killed by the United States at Wounded Knee.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Demand for historical and ethical responsibility<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In their statement, Bishop Bullock and the De Smet Jesuits said that \u201cas Catholics and followers of Jesus Christ, we proclaim the infinite dignity of every human life,\u201d adding that humanity is both \u201ccapable of love and goodness\u201d and \u201calso capable of terrible evil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThose who died at Wounded Knee are sacred. Jesus stands with all who suffer and die at the hands of others,\u201d they wrote. \u201cThose who committed the violence are also sacred; for this reason, Jesus offers them mercy and healing. Yet the acts themselves were grave evils and cannot be honored.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, they added, \u201cEven if we are not personally responsible for Wounded Knee, we bear a moral responsibility to remember and speak the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They urged choosing, like Jesus, \u201cto stand with our brothers and sisters, walking together in truth<\/a>, remembering the victims, and seeking reconciliation rooted in honesty and compassion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnly by facing the cross of our shared history can we move toward resurrection \u2014 a future of just and lasting peace for all God\u2019s beloved children,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Featured image: A Lakota person rides a horse with a sacred staff during a horse ride to 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\u2019s Jesuits, have condemned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s decision to retain the Medal of Honor for the U.S. soldiers that massacred 300 Lakota people at Wounded Knee in 1890. (OSV News\/Stephanie Keith, Reuters)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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