Wounded Knee legacy lives on after 50 years
Memories of the Wounded Knee occupation, which pushed the American Indian Movement to the forefront of Native activism, still run deep.
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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, and […]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings above via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- ...
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.