Biography
Madonna Thunder Hawk is an Oohenumpa Lakota (Cheyenne River Sioux) organizer who has taken part in nearly every major modern Native occupation, from Alcatraz (1969) to Wounded Knee (1973) to Standing Rock (2016). She was arrested and jailed for several nights on the opening night of the Wounded Knee siege, then returned to serve as a camp medic. A co-founder of Women of All Red Nations, she later directed the Wounded Knee Legal Defense/Offense Committee and remains a prominent Lakota elder and organizer.
