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Madonna Phillips
Madonna Thunder Hawk
Born
Madonna Phillips
1940 (age 83–84)[1]
Yankton Sioux Reservation
Nationality
American Indian
Occupation(s)
Grassroots activist Water Rights activist
Years active
1969–present
Organization(s)
American Indian Movement Pie Patrol[2] Women of All Red Nations Black Hills Alliance[3] Wounded Knee Legal Defense Offense Committee (WKLDOC)
Known for
Occupation of Alcatraz Wounded Knee incident We Will Remember Survival School Lakota People's Law Project
Relatives
Russell Means (first cousin)[4]
Marcella Gilbert (daughter)[5]
Website
Lakota People's Law Project
Madonna Thunder Hawk (born Madonna Gilbert) is a Native American civil rights activist best known as a member and leader in the American Indian Movement (AIM), co-founding Women of All Red Nations (WARN) and the Black Hills Alliance,[6] and as an organizer against the Dakota Access Pipeline. She established the Wasagiya Najin Grandmothers' Group on the Cheyenne River to help build kinship networks while also developing Simply Smiles Children Village.[7] She also serves as the Director of Grassroots Organizing for the Red Road Institute. Thunderhawk has spoken around the world as a delegate to the United Nations and is currently the Lakota People's Law Project principal and Tribal liaison. She was an international Indian Treaty Council delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva. Also, a delegate to the U.N. Decade of Women Conference in Mexico City and in the 2001 to the World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa.[8]
^Jessepe, Lorraine (14 October 2010). "Red Power activist Madonna Thunder Hawk going strong at 70". Vermonters Concerned on Native American Affairs. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
^"Wounded Knee". Indian Country News. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
^Waterman Wittstock, Laura (31 October 2012). "Elizabeth Castle and Madonna Thunder Hawk". KFAI. Archived from the original on 26 October 2014. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
^"Lakota People's Law Project's Madonna Thunder Hawk and Daniel Sheehan Remember Russell Means". PRWeb. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 26 October 2014.
^Leachman, Shelly (1 November 2021). "Warrior Women". UC Santa Barbara The Current. Retrieved 19 March 2024.
^"Principal, Warrior Women Project; Tribal Liaison, Lakota People's Law Project | Aspen Ideas". Aspen Ideas Festival. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
^"Principal, Warrior Women Project; Tribal Liaison, Lakota People's Law Project | Aspen Ideas". Aspen Ideas Festival. Retrieved 2024-03-19.
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