Wounded Knee 50th

By Morwenna Gwenan Haf Osmond, WWP’s Research and Educational Programs Coordinator

“This history of warrior women in the American Indian Movement, the Red Power movement, where is this history? And where is it being stored? And who’s sharing it? And who’s telling it? Through the Warrior Women Project [Archive], we can share it so that people learn our history, from us.”

- Marcella Gilbert, Dakota AIM
Opening remarks at WWP’s exhibit, Feb 25, 2023

This article describes an exhibit WWP created to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Wounded Knee Occupation. It provides an example of how community-based oral history archives can be activated to serve their home communities and inform contemporary struggles.