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Twenty U.S. soldiers received [[Medal of Honor|Medals of Honor]] for their actions (some sources state the number as 18 or 23).<ref name="NebHistMedals">{{Cite journal|title=The Medals of Wounded Knee|url=http://nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH1994MedalsWKnee.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402161933/http://nebraskahistory.org/publish/publicat/history/full-text/NH1994MedalsWKnee.pdf|url-status=usurped|archive-date=April 2, 2012|first=Jerry|last=Green|year=1994|journal=Nebraska History|publisher=[[Nebraska State Historical Society]]|page=207|volume=75|access-date=September 22, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Indian Wars Period|url=http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/indianwars.html|work=Medal of Honor Recipients|publisher=[[U.S. Army Center of Military History]]|access-date=September 22, 2011|archive-date=August 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130803232814/http://www.history.army.mil/html/moh/indianwars.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> American Indian and human rights activists have referred to these as "Medals of Dis-Honor" and called for the awards to be rescinded, but none of them have ever been revoked.<ref name="NebHistMedals" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Support the Action to Revoke the Congressional Medals of Honor to the Soldiers of the 7th Cavalry at Wounded Knee |url=http://www.ncai.org/ncai/data/resolution/2001annual/163.pdf |date=November 30, 2001 |publisher=National Congress of American Indians |access-date=September 22, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120328055336/http://www.ncai.org/ncai/data/resolution/2001annual/163.pdf |archive-date=March 28, 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Action: Rescind Wounded Knee Medals of Dis Honor|url=http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/02/09/942397/-Action:-Rescind-Wounded-Knee-Medals-of-Dis-Honor|date=February 9, 2011|last=Winter Rabbit|work=[[Daily Kos]]|access-date=September 22, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Massacre: Wounded Knee, South Dakota, USA, December 29, 1890|url=http://www.danielnpaul.com/WoundedKnee.html|work=We Were Not the Savages: First Nation History|editor-first=Daniel N.|editor-last=Paul|access-date=September 22, 2011}}</ref>