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 […]
MN History Center’s “Our Home: Native Minnesota” worth checking out
By Deborah Locke First, a question. Would you agree that in the years since European settlers occupied Minnesota land and shoved Natives to reservations or killed them outright, the primary narrative of what happened is the white perspective? If you accept that premise, you also realize that this partial narrative of history has shown itself […]