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Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later

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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 in case anybody got hit,” said Thunder Hawk, of the Oohenumpa band of …

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CTV News

Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later

Memories of the Wounded Knee occupation -- one in a string of protests from 1969 to 1973 that pushed the American Indian Movement to the forefront of Native activism -- still run deep within people who were there.

1 year ago·Canada

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Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later

Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights.

1 year ago·London, United Kingdom

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Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later

WOUNDED KNEE, S.D. (AP) — Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights.

1 year ago·United States

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Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later

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KRDO

Legacy of Wounded Knee occupation lives on 50 years later

By KALLE BENALLIE, ICT 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 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 in case anybody got hit,” said Thunder Hawk, of the Oohenumpa band of …

1 year ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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