“The Warrior Women Project exhibit is a groundbreaking triumph in oral storytelling. It feels like you’re inside an interactive chapter of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. As a student of our Resistance and Lakota Culture I often find the voices of matriarchs absent from Western documentation but no longer! This is how we tell our history, WWP is decades in the making.

I’m someone who has grown up in the movement hearing these anecdotes at my mother’s table and even I was surprised to hear new stories told with such vitality and fresh and different perspectives. Our past is more relevant than ever. 

There are truly moments of laughter within the hard struggle, it reminds us all that Revolution is in the air, liberation is possible, and our elders have fought hard to ensure the long term survival of our Indigenous people. Prepare your heart for battle, honor your ancestors, and do not forget to listen to your Auntie.”

Mark K Tilsen

Oglala Lakota
Poet and Frontliner