The Remove the Stain Act, a bill reintroduced before Congress, aims at revoking the Medal of Honor distinctions for those U.S. Army soldiers who served at Wounded Knee and received the highest military decoration possible. The future is uncertain, and its status still stays in limbo.
Yet Native communities continue struggling to cope with generations of trauma that stem from the Wounded Knee Massacre. How do Indigenous peoples deal with their inherited pain and suffering that remains glaringly ignored by a deeply-divided American sociopolitical and cultural society?
“Remembering a Massacre: A Roundtable on Wounded Knee,” a special two-part program, hosted and moderated by Gabriel Pietrorazio, Indigenous affairs editor, invites some of the most influential voices from Indian Country to reflect on the shrouded historical legacy behind one of the most deadly mass shootings in American history, one that still stokes intergenerational grief and trauma for Native communities across the continent.
This two-part program was recorded on Friday, Dec. 17, edited and later produced virtually in Washington, D.C.
