Indian Times Too

09/30/2025

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Today, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced that the soldiers who massacred Lakota Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in 1890 will keep their Medals of Honor. He called the decision final and said their place in history is settled.

Let’s be clear. Wounded Knee was not a battle. It was the killing of civilians. More than 250 Lakota, most of them women and children, were killed when the U.S. 7th Cavalry opened fire with rifles and Hotchkiss guns. Only 25 U.S. soldiers died, many from friendly fire.

Twenty Medals of Honor, the nation’s highest military award, were given for this massacre. Native communities and historians have fought for decades to have those medals revoked. There has even been bipartisan legislation called “Remove the Stain” aimed at stripping them. The Pentagon ordered a review in 2024.

By calling it a battle and refusing to act, this decision doesn’t just ignore history. It honors one of the darkest atrocities in our nation’s past and tells Native people their voices and their ancestors’ lives don’t matter.

History is not settled. Truth matters. Keeping those medals in place is an insult to every Lakota family still living with the legacy of Wounded Knee.

09/14/2025

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Save the Trees

09/06/2025

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Fields joins Osages Maria Tallchief and Dr. Robert Warrior. Her induction ceremony will take place in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in October

08/20/2025

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08/10/2025

08/10/2025

Chickasaw Nation Film Festival Holba' Pisachi' was great, facilities were excellent. Film actors Michael Spears and Jon Proudstar were on hand for Q&A and pictures. [I couldn't take a good pic to save my life!]

07/27/2025

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07/23/2025

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02/08/2025

Wa kon Owatsi Dance

02/03/2025

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Half of all U.S. states, 25 to be exact, carry Native American names. Today we will be taking a look at the 25 states and the meanings of their names. They will be listed in alphabetical order.
1. Alabama: Named after the Alabama, or Alibamu tribe, a Muskogean-speaking tribe. Sources are split between the meanings 'clearers of the thicket' or 'herb gatherers'.
2. Alaska: Named after the Aleut word "alaxsxaq", which means "the mainland"
3. Arizona: Named after the O'odham word "alĭ ṣonak", meaning "small spring"
4. Connecticut: Named after the Mohican word "quonehtacut", meaning "place of long tidal river"
5. Hawaii: Is an original word in the Hawaiian language meaning "homeland"
6. Illinois: Named after the Illinois word "illiniwek", meaning "men"
7. Iowa: Named after the Ioway tribe, whose name means "gray snow"
8. Kansas: Named after the Kansa tribe, whose name means "south wind people"
9. Kentucky: Origins are unclear, it may have been named after the Iroquoian word "Kentake", meaning "on the meadow"
10. Massachusetts: Named after the Algonquin word "Massadchu-es-et," meaning "great-hill-small-place,”
11. Michigan: From the Chippewa word "Michigama", meaning "large lake"
12. Minnesota: Named after the Dakota Indian word “Minisota” meaning “white water.”
13. Mississippi: Named after the river which was named by the Choctaw, meaning “Great water” or “Father of Waters.”
14. Missouri: Named after the Missouri tribe whose name means "those who have dugout canoes".

02/03/2025

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Chief Plenty Coups and child. Crow. Montana. Early 1900s. Photo by N.A. Forsyth. Source - Montana Historical Society.