Honoring the Women of Wounded Knee: 50th Anniversary Traveling Exhibit
The Warrior Women Project‘s Honoring the Women of Wounded Knee: 50th Anniversary is now on display at the W. H. Over Museum.
“Commemorating the occupation’s 50th anniversary, the “Honoring the Women of Wounded Knee” exhibit foregrounds the forgotten Indian women leaders at the center of this iconic resistance—and their fights for self-determination before and since.
Thoughtfully researched and beautifully designed, the exhibit reveals that Indian women not only initiated the occupation, coordinated the camp’s logistics, fed its masses, and healed its wounded. They also coordinated the occupation’s communications strategy, founded the Independent Oglala Nation, and took up arms to protect it.
Drawing on two decades of oral history interviewing and a range of archival material, the exhibit provides an intimate, immersive learning experience that sheds new light on how Indian women forged a self-governing community and brought self-determination into being. Comprising 16 retractable panels, the exhibit includes 12 life-size panels dedicated to individual women narrators, conveying their biographies and experiences, while accompanying tablets showcase clips from their oral history interviews.”
The Warrior Women Project recovers the stories of warrior women who fought for Indigenous self-determination and cultural survival during the Red Power movement (1960s-1980s). They document these histories through oral history, activist archiving and community-accountable research & media production, and make them available and actionable to their home communities and wider audiences through decolonial learning experiences.
Other Exhibits
Visit the Museum and experience exhibits like The Battle of Slim Buttes Diorama, the Lakota Family Camp Exhibit and the 1912 Moline Dreadnought ’35’ Exhibit!