Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later
By Associated Press 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 […]
“Warrior Women” shows the strength of unified resistance
Review by Deborah Locke In one of the lighter moments of the award-winning film “Warrior Women,” an American Indian man points out that whereas Indian men like to talk about problems, Indian women like to resolve them. So they do. His audience of mostly women smiled. There are many light moments of humor and insight […]