On Thursday, December 1, Lakota People’s Law Project Organizer and Tribal Liaison Madonna Thunderhawk appeared on KPFA Radio’s Bay Native Circle Program to discuss the dire straits of Lakota children in South Dakota. The entire program focused on issues of native children and, in addition to Madonna, featured Shirley Begay on the NAHC Health Care Outreach and music by Chuna, Star Nayea, and a Radmilla Cody.
Madonna Thunderhawk is a member of the Oohenumpa band of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. She has dedicated her life to working on issues of Native American justice. A grandmother, literally and figuratively, to a generation of American Indian activists, Madonna is currently working with the Lakota People’s Law Project to organize Lakota grandmothers in South Dakota to effectively fight for the rights of their children and grandchildren against the state’s severe ongoing violations of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
Follow the link to listen to the Bay Native Circle program. Madonna begins speaking at approximately the 42-minute mark.
Madonna Thudnerhawk and her granddaughter Decora.
Madonna Thunderhawk on KPFA Radio
On Thursday, December 1, Lakota People’s Law Project Organizer and Tribal Liaison Madonna Thunderhawk appeared on KPFA Radio’s Bay Native Circle Program to discuss the dire straits of Lakota children in South Dakota. The entire program focused on issues of native children and, in addition to Madonna, featured Shirley Begay on the NAHC Health Care Outreach and music by Chuna, Star Nayea, and a Radmilla Cody.
Madonna Thunderhawk is a member of the Oohenumpa band of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. She has dedicated her life to working on issues of Native American justice. A grandmother, literally and figuratively, to a generation of American Indian activists, Madonna is currently working with the Lakota People’s Law Project to organize Lakota grandmothers in South Dakota to effectively fight for the rights of their children and grandchildren against the state’s severe ongoing violations of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
Follow the link to listen to the Bay Native Circle program. Madonna begins speaking at approximately the 42-minute mark.
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