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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…
But legacy of activism lives on among those who have followed in their footsteps, including new generations of Native people who turned out at Standing Rock beginning in 2016 for pipeline protests
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