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Film Reflections
Forty women from Indigenous nations across the world came together to watch the film, which served as a catalyst for powerful discussions on Indigenous matriarchy. Below, Charlie reflects on the experience.
Exhibit Review
Professor Max Krochmal, PhD, reflects on the exhibit as both a transmitter of Indigenous women’s stories and an example of community-engaged public history.
International Solidarity
Fostering and nurturing relationships with people that will walk with you, sit with you, sometimes guide you, and most importantly, hear you.
Wounded Knee 50th
Community-based archiving as a practice of honoring: The Warrior Women Project and the Honoring the Women of Wounded Knee Exhibit
CRST Labor Day 2022
The Warrior Women Project presents the homecoming screening of the award winning documentary Warrior Women and the WWP “Tell your Story!” Oral History Tent at the CRST Labor Day Weekend Celebration 2022
Sparking a Fire
Warrior Women Project Director Dr. Elizabeth Castle reflects on the life and legacy of Marcella LeBeau.
Mother’s Day
Women of Wasagiya Najin including Madonna Thunder Hawk, Marcella Gilbert, Amy Ravadoo, Andria Ravadoo, and Lisa Skye went to the East End of the Cheyenne River Reservation to deliver food and show support for the tribal border patrol. The women have delivered food to the tribal border patrol every other day through sponsorship by the Warrior Women Project.
WARN & Nazo
The Warrior Women Project team has been busy with important on-the-ground work and traveling and sharing the Warrior Women film, which tells the story of Madonna Thunder Hawk, Marcella Gilbert, and their ongoing activism. We have been around the United States and the world since our last blog entry. Our travels have delayed the update of the blog, but not the important work of Women of All Red Nations (WARN) and Nazo.
Video: W.A.R.N. Ride
Video footage of women from the Fours Bands of the Oceti Sakowin— the Minnicoujou, Itazipco, Siha Sapa, and Oohenumpa—as they made a symbolic horse ride in December on the western edge/border of the Cheyenne River Reservation where a “man camp” will be constructed nearby.
W.A.R.N. Rides Again
A small group of intergenerational women from the Oceti Sakowin homelands - People of the Seven Council Fires (meaning of the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota peoples who make up the "Great Sioux Nation") - gathered as part of the 2019 O'maka Tokatakiya/Future Generations Ride (aka Big Foot ride).
Standing Up
While the holidays are in high gear, so too is the fight against the TransCanada KXL Pipeline and all of the coming violence that it represents.
W.A.R.N.
In the late 1970s, a powerful group of Native women formed the "Women of All Red Nations" to take on the fight against uranium mining that led to the environmental destruction and poisoning of the local water supply and ultimately caused devastating reproductive health emergencies in South Dakota.
Premiere Anniversary
IT’S BEEN A YEAR, PEOPLE!! As we come around to Warrior Women’s one year anniversary of our Hot Docs Premiere, we thought it was time to recap and look to the future.
