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1973 Wounded Knee: Activist Gladys Bissonette
1media/Screenshot 2023-03-17 at 3.05.21 PM_thumb.png2023-03-17T22:34:52+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911Gladys Bissonette during the 1970s. Thunder Hawk,of the Oohenumpa band of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, said there wasn’t a conscious effort to make women part of Wounded Knee – they were just there. It was instinctive to be part of the movement. She said tribal leadership back then was predominantly male because of a colonized way of thinking, but having a strong matriarchal presence was simply tradition and culture. “Anything that happens in community all revolves around the strong families and the matriarchs,” said Thunder Hawk, now 83. “That's the way it is.”plain2023-03-17T22:34:52+00:001973Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49