Native American leaders are condemning a move by the Pentagon to preserve 20 Medals of Honor awarded to soldiers involved in the 1890 Battle of Wounded Knee massacre. On December 29, 1890, the U.S. Army killed as many as 300 Oglala Lakota people at Wounded Knee, including many women and children. In a statement, National Congress of American Indians executive director Larry Wright Jr. said, “Celebrating war crimes is not patriotic. This decision undermines truth-telling, reconciliation, and the healing that Indian Country and the United States still need.”