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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

The occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, began 50 years ago and was one in a string of protests from 1969 to 1973 that pushed the American Indian Movement to the forefront of Native activism. ICT reports that mixed feelings linger over the tensions that emerged in Lakota communities after the 71-day occupation and the virtual destruction of the small community. But the legacy of activism lives on among those who have followed in the occupiers' footsteps, including the new generations of Native people who turned out near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation beginning in 2016 to protest the ...

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

“I’m quite frankly embarrassed that this isn’t already on the books,” Republican Rep. Neil Duram, a former Montana Highway Patrol trooper from Eureka, said Friday.

A bill introduced into the Montana House of Representatives Friday would criminalize the act of roofying someone, or causing them to unknowingly ingest date rape drugs, regardless of if the drugged victim is sexually assaulted or not.