Choctaw Indians helped us, we should help them

December 29, 2014, marked the 124th anniversary of the Massacre at Wounded Knee (South Dakota), where 153 members of a band of 350 Minneconjou and Hunkpapa Lakota (120 men, 230 women and children), unarmed and in the act of surrender, were slaughtered by members of four divisions of the US Army’s Seventh Cavalry. 

As most of those injured died in the days that followed, almost 300 were killed, and buried in a mass grave.

Subsequently, the Congressional Medal of Honour was awarded to 18 of the perpetrators. There is an active campaign by and on behalf of members of the Lakota nation, led by Calvin Spotted Elk to have the medals rescinded.