Legacy of Wounded Knee Occupation Lives On 50 Years Later - New Delhi Times - India Only International Newspaper

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…

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