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Today, as every year on this date, we remember those who were massacred by the U.S. 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee in 1890, 126 years ago today:
THE DEAD
Afraid Of Bear 
Afraid Of Nothing Bear (Bear Fool) 
Afraid Of Tomahawk 
Appears Twice 
Ashes 
Baby girl
Baby, Wet Feet (White Foot) 
Bad (Bear) Woman’s son
Bad Braves 
Bad Owner Without Rope 
Bad Owner Without Rope’ wife
Bad Spotted Eagle (Cree)
Bad Spotted Eagle’s wife
Bad Wound 
Bad Wound’s son
Badger 
Bear Comes And Lies 
Bear Don’t Run 
Bear Lays Down 
Bear Parts (Cuts) Body 
Bear Parts (Cuts) Body’s son
Bear Sheds His Hair (Shedding Bear) 
Bear Skin Vest 
Bear Skin Vest’s wife
Bear Skin Vest’s daughter
Bear That Shoots 
Bear That Shoots’ mother 
Bear With Small Body 
Bear With Small Body’s wife
Bear Woman 
Benefactress 
Chief Big Foot (Spotted Elk) 
Big Foot’s wife (Small Tail)
Big Foot’s daughter (White Horse Woman)
Big Skirt (Shirt) 
Big (Loud) Voice Thunder 
Big Voice Thunder’s wife
Big Voice Thunder’ child
Bird Wings 
Bird’s Belly 
Black Flutes 
Black Fox (Coyote) 
Black Hawk
Black Hair’s wife
Black Shield's little girl
Brings White 
Broken Arrow
Broken Arrow’s wife
Brown Beaver
Brown Hoops
Brown Turtle
Brown Woman
Buckskin Breech Clout
Cast Away And Run
Cedar Horse 
Charge At Them
Chief Boy 
Chief Woman
Close To Home, Louis
Clown Woman 
Comes Out Rattling
Cottonwood 
Courage Bear
Courage Bear’s wife
Courage Bear, George
Crazy Bear
Dewey Beard’s wife (Wears Eagle/White Face) 
Dewey Beard’s son (Thomas Beard)
Drops Blood’s wife
Eagle Body
Elk Creek
Elk Creek’s wife
Fat Courage Bear
Feather Enemy 
Ghost Horse
Good Bear’s wife
Good Boy 
Grease Leg Bone 
Grey Hand 
Grey In Eyes 
Handsome 
Happens 
Hard To Kill’s mother
Has A Dog
Has Scarlet 
Has The Bell 
Hat 
Hawk Flying 
He Crow 
He Eagle
He Eagle’s wife
He Eagle, Edward
Head Woman 
Heart Of Timber 
Her Eagle Body 
Her Good Cloud 
Her Scarlet Blanket 
High Hawk’s wife
High Hawk’s son
High Hawk’s daughter
Horned Cloud, William
Horned Cloud, Sherman
Important Man 
Iron American’s wife
Iron Eyes (Big Foot's brother)
Iron Eyes’ wife
Iron Eyes, Albert
Kills 
Kills Assiniboine 
Kills Crow Indian 
Kills First 
Kills In Bush 
Kills Seneca 
Kills Tin Cup 
Kills Who Stand In Timber 
Wife of Kills Who Stand In Timber 
Kyle, Charles 
Lap’s wife
Last Running
Last Talking 
Leg 
Light Hair 
Liking 
Little baby
Little Body Bear 
Little Body Bear’s wife
Little Body Bear’s son
Little Body Bear’s daughter
Little Boy’s son
Little Elk 
Little Elk’s wife
Little girl
Living Bear 
Lodge Napkin 
Lodge Skin 
Log 
Wife of Log 
Lone Child 
Long Bull 
Mrs. Long Bull
Long Medicine 
Mad 
Makes Presents 
Medicine Lake Girl
Medicine Woman’s son
Medicine Woman’s son (2)
Medicine Woman’s daughter 
Mercy To Others
Mule's Daughter
Not Afraid Of Lodge
Not Go In Among
Old Good Bear
Old Man Yellow Bull
Old Man Yellow Bull’
One Feather
Pass Water In Horn 
Pawnee Killer 
Peaked 
Picket Horse 
Plain Voice 
Pretty Bear 
Pretty Bold Eagle
Pretty Enemy
Pretty Hawk 
Pretty Hawk’s wife
Pretty Hawk’s baby
Pretty Hair 
Pretty Voice Elk 
Pretty Woman
Produce 
Rattles 
Rattling Leaf 
Really Woman
Really Woman’s Son 
Red Buffalo (Red White Cow) 
Red Eagle
Red Ears Horse 
Red Ears Horse’s sister
Red Fish 
Red Fish’s wife
Red (Scarlet) Horn 
Red Juniper 
Red Other Woman 
Red Shell 
Red Shirt Girl
Red Water Woman 
Roots Its Hole 
Rousing Squirrel 
Rousing Squirrel’s mother
Running In Lodge 
Running Standing Hairs 
Running Standing Hairs’ wife
Running Standing Hairs’ daughter
Runs After 
Runs Behind (Last Running) 
Runs Off With Horses 
Runs On’ sister
Sacred Face 
Sacred In Appearance 
Scabbard Knife
Scabbard Knife’s wife
Scares The Bear 
Scares The Bear’s grandson
Scares The Bear’s grandson (2) 
Scarlet Calf 
Scarlet Calf’s son
Scarlet Calf’s son (2) 
Scarlet Coat 
Scarlet Otter 
Scarlet Smoke 
Scarlet White Buffalo 
Scatters Them 
Shakes The Bird
Shaving Bear 
Shaving Bear’s child
Shaving Bear’s child (2)
Shaving Bear’s child (3)
Shaving Bear’s child (4)
Shedding Bear
Shedding Bear’s mother-in-law
She Bear
Shoot At Accurately 
Shoot At Accurately’s son
Shoots Straight 
Shoots The Bear
Shoots The Bear’s wife
Shoots The Bear, George 
Shoots (With) The Hawk Feather 
Shoots (With) The Hawk Feather’s mother
Shoots The Right 
Shoots The White 
Short Hair (Close Haired) Bear 
Short Hair Bear’s child
Short Hair Bear’s child (2)
Short Hair Bear’s child (3)
Shot In Hand 
Singing Bull 
Singing Bull’s wife
Singing Bull’s son
Slippery Hide 
Small Bodied Bear 
Spotted (Speckled) Chief 
Spotted Elk 
Spotted Elk’s wife
Spotted Elk’s son
Spotted Elk’ son (2)
Spotted Elk’s son (3)
Spotted Thunder
Starts The Horse 
Strike Scatter
Stone Hammer’s wife
Strong Fox
Strong Fox’s wife
Sun In The Pupil
Sun In The Pupil’s wife
Swift Bird
Swift Bird’s wife
Takes Away Enemy 
Takes Away The Bow
The Ring 
Thunder 
Thunder Hawk Woman 
To Laugh 
Trotter 
Trouble 
Trouble In Front 
Trouble In Front’s mother-in-law
Trouble In Love’s wife 
Twin Woman 
Unintentionally Brave 
Up To His Waist 
Up To His Waist’s wife
Used For Brother 
Walking Bull 
Walking Bull’s wife
Walks Red 
War In His 
Water Snake 
Wears Calfskin Robe 
Weasel 
Weasel Bear 
Weasel Bear, Louise
Whip 
Whirlwind Bear 
Whirlwind Hawk 
Whirlwind Hawk’s wife
Whirlwind Hawk’s daughter
Whirlwind Hawk’s daughter (2)
Whirlwind Hawk’s daughter (3)
Whirlwind Hawk’s son
Whirlwind Hawk’s son (2)
White 
White American 
White Beaver Woman 
White Bull 
White Day
White Face Sun 
White Feather 
White Hat 
White Man 
White Mule 
White Wolf 
White Woman 
Wind 
Wing 
Wing’s son
Winter 
Without Robe 
Wolf Eagle 
Wolf Ears, Edward 
Wolf Skin Necklace
Wood Shade
Wood Shade’s wife
Wounded Hand
Wounded In Winter 
Yellow Bird Woman 
Yellow Buffalo Calf’s wife
Yellow Robe
Young Afraid Of Bear 
Young Bear
Young Good Bear
THE WOUNDED (partial list)
Afraid Of Enemy 
Brown Eyes 
Bear Gone 
Bad (Bear) Woman 
Bear Lays Down’s wife 
Billy Woman 
Dewey Beard (Iron Hail) 
He Crow’s wife
Help Them (Helps Them Up) 
Her Black Horses 
Holy Woman 
Kills Close To Lodge, Bertha 
Kills White Man’s wife
Little Bull 
Little Finger, John 
Looking Elk 
Looking Elk, Lydia
Put Away Moccasins 
Run As Though His Hair Fussed 
Runs Around Lodge 
Sack Woman 
Scaring Hawk 
Walking Buffalo 
White Cowboy’s son
Yellow Eyes
THE SURVIVORS
Afraid Of Hawk, Richard 
Afraid Of Left Hand 
Animal 
Audacious Bear 
Back Bone 
Bad Boy 
Bad Hand 
Bear Cuts Body’s wife
Bear Don’t Run’s wife 
Bear Runs In The Woods 
Bear Sheds His Hair’s wife
Bear Woman’s daughter
Bear Woman, Edith 
Big Boy’s son
Bird Shaker (Brown Bull) 
Birds Afraid Of Him 
Black Bugle 
Black Crow 
Blue Horse 
Bone 
Brings Yellow 
Brown Hair 
Brown Sinew
Chases And Kills 
Cub Bear 
Enemy 
Farms At The River 
Good Horse’s wife
Good Scarlet Horn 
Good (Pretty) Spotted Horse 
Good White Cow 
Grey 
Grey Hand’s wife
Grey Hand’s son (George Randall)
Grey Owl Woman 
Hair Pipe 
Hand 
Hard To Kill (Young Bear) 
Hawk Bear (Eagle Hawk Bear) 
Hawk Feather (Shoots The Hawk Feather) 
Hawk Woman 
He Crow, Jackson
He Eagle
Helper, Simon 
Her Black Horses’s daughter
Her Brown Faced Dog 
Her Cedar 
Her Eagle 
Her Elk Tooth 
Her First 
Her Neck 
Her Room 
Her Shawl 
Her War Bonnet 
In Front 
Kill Her White Horse 
Killed His Choice 
Killed The Bear 
Killed The Bear’s wife
Kills Against 
Kills First, Leon 
Kills First, Mary
Kills In The Middle 
Kills One Hundred 
Kills Two 
Kills White Man 
King Boy’s son 
Knife, Nellie 
Knocked In The Head 
Kyle, Charles’ wife
Kyle, Charles’ child
Light Hair Girl 
Little Bear 
Little Body Bear’s son
Little Cloud 
Little Cloud’s wife 
Little Eyed Woman 
Little Water 
Little Water’s wife
Little Warrior 
Little Wound 
Liver Gall 
Lives In Iron 
Lives Reckless 
Living Bull’s son
Living Bull, Helena 
Long Bull 
Long Bull, Helen
Long Feather 
Long Holy 
Long Woman 
Lost Bird
Makes Him Mad 
Not Stingy 
Picks And Kill 
Pipe On Head, James 
Pretty Shield 
Pretty Shield’s wife
Quit On Him 
Red Belly 
Red Fingernail Woman 
Red Fish, James 
Red Horn Bear 
Red Stone 
Rough Feather 
Running Hawk, George 
Runs After It 
Runs Fast 
Runs On 
Sacred Blanket 
Scarlet Rotation 
Scarlet Tipi Top 
Scout 
Scout Tent 
Sees The Bear 
Sees The Elk 
Seventeen, Patrick 
Shawl Over Head 
Shell Necklace 
She Wears Eagle 
Shoot The Bear (I Shot The Bear) 
Shoots Straight’s wife
Shoots Straight’s child
Shot Him Off 
Short Hair Bear’s wife
Shows His Cloud 
Sinew Belly 
Sits Poor, Frank 
Sits Straight (Good Thunder) 
Smokes Walking 
Snow Over Her 
Sole Of Foot 
Spotted Bear, John 
Spotted Eagle 
Stands Looking’s wife
Stands Up For Him 
Tattooed 
The Brown
The Hawk 
The Voice 
Touches The Ground 
Trouble In Front (Bear Sheds His Hair) 
Two Arrows (Male Eagle) 
Two Lance 
Unties Shoestring 
Walks With Circle 
Warrior 
Wears Calfskin Robe’s wife 
Wears Fur Coat 
Wears Yellow Robe 
Whip 
White Cow Comes Out 
White Eagle
White Face Woman 
White Hair 
White Hawk’s son
White Horse 
White Lance (Horn Cloud) 
White Woman Hand 
Wild Man 
Wind In Guts 
Young Big Foot 
Yellow Horse
Sources: “The Wounded Knee Interviews of Eli S. Ricker” and “Big Foot’s Followers at Wounded Knee” in Nebraska History Quarterly (lists may be incomplete)
Medals of Honor (the United States’ highest military honor) awarded to selected perpetrators of the massacre. These awards have never been rescinded:
• Sergeant William Austin, cavalry, directed fire at Indians in ravine at Wounded Knee;
• Private Mosheim Feaster, cavalry, extraordinary gallantry at Wounded Knee;
• Private Mathew Hamilton, cavalry, bravery in action at Wounded Knee;
• Private Joshua Hartzog, artillery, rescuing commanding officer who was wounded and carried him out of range of hostile guns at Wounded Knee;
• Private Marvin Hillock, cavalry, distinguished bravery at Wounded Knee;
• Sergeant Bernhard Jetter, cavalry, distinguished bravery at Wounded Knee for "killing an Indian who was in the act of killing a wounded man of B Troop."
• Sergeant George Loyd, cavalry, bravery, especially after having been severely wounded through the lung at Wounded Knee;
• Sergeant Albert McMillain, cavalry, while engaged with Indians concealed in a ravine, he assisted the men on the skirmish line, directed their fire, encouraged them by example, and used every effort to dislodge the enemy at Wounded Knee;
• Private Thomas Sullivan, cavalry, conspicuous bravery in action against Indians concealed in a ravine at Wounded Knee;
• First Sergeant Jacob Trautman, cavalry, killed a hostile Indian at close quarters, and, although entitled to retirement from service, remained to close of the campaign at Wounded Knee;
• Sergeant James Ward, cavalry, continued to fight after being severely wounded at Wounded Knee;
• Corporal William Wilson, cavalry, bravery in Sioux Campaign, 1890;
• Private Hermann Ziegner, cavalry, conspicuous bravery at Wounded Knee;
• Musician John Clancy, artillery, twice voluntarily rescued wounded comrades under fire of the enemy;
• Lieutenant Ernest Garlington, cavalry, distinguished gallantry;
• First Lieutenant John Chowning Gresham, cavalry, voluntarily led a party into a ravine to dislodge Sioux Indians concealed therein. He was wounded during this action.
• Second Lieutenant Harry Hawthorne, artillery, distinguished conduct in battle with hostile Indians;
• Private George Hobday, cavalry, conspicuous and gallant conduct in battle;
• First Sergeant Frederick Toy, cavalry, bravery;
• Corporal Paul Weinert, artillery, taking the place of his commanding officer who had fallen severely wounded, he gallantly served his piece, after each fire advancing it to a better position
Remember all this, the next time you hear someone talking about "making America great again".