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CUSTER, S.D. – Before the cheers of "Burn beetle, burn" fill the air, you still have some time to get ready for the annual Burning Beetle event in Custer.

The Custer community will once again set a beetle effigy alight. We talk about the philosophy behind the event and how to be a good neighbor in the national forest.

Memories of the Wounded Knee occupation, which pushed the American Indian Movement to the forefront of Native activism, still run deep.

The AIM occupation of 1973 endures in a new generation of Native activists at Standing Rock and other protests.

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/legacy-of-wounded-knee-occupation-lives-on-50-years-later/"></div>WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP) — Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights. As a medic during the occupation of Wounded Knee in early 1973, Thunder Hawk was stationed nightly in a frontline bunker in the combat zone between Native American activists and U.S. government agents in South Dakota. “I would crawl out there every night...

Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights. As a medic during the occupation of Wounded Knee in early 1973, Thunder Hawk was stationed nightly in a frontline bunker in the combat zone between Native American activists and U.S. government agents in South Dakota. “I would crawl out there every night, and we’d just be out there…

Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights.

But legacy of activism lives on among those who have followed in their footsteps, including new generations of Native people who turned out at Standing Rock beginning in 2016 for pipeline protests

WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP) — Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights.

Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later | 2023-02-27 14:28:21