Madonna Thunder Hawk
Madonna Phillips | |
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| Madonna Thunder Hawk | |
| Born | Madonna Phillips 1940 (age 84–85) |
| Nationality | American Indian |
| Occupation(s) | Grassroots activist Water Rights activist |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Organization(s) | American Indian Movement Pie Patrol Women of All Red Nations Black Hills Alliance Wounded Knee Legal Defense Offense Committee (WKLDOC) |
| Known for | Occupation of Alcatraz Wounded Knee incident We Will Remember Survival School Lakota People's Law Project |
| Relatives | Russell Means (first cousin) Marcella Gilbert (daughter) |
| Website | Lakota People's Law Project |
Madonna Thunder Hawk (born Madonna Gilbert) is a Native American civil rights activist best known as a member and leader in the American Indian Movement (AIM), co-founding Women of All Red Nations (WARN) and the Black Hills Alliance, and as an organizer against the Dakota Access Pipeline. She established the Wasagiya Najin Grandmothers' Group on the Cheyenne River to help build kinship networks while also developing Simply Smiles Children Village. She also serves as the Director of Grassroots Organizing for the Red Road Institute. Thunder Hawk has spoken around the world as a delegate to the United Nations and is currently the Lakota People's Law Project principal and Tribal liaison. She was an International Indian Treaty Council delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva. Also, a delegate to the U.N. Decade of Women Conference in Mexico City and in the 2001 to the World Conference against Racism in Durban, South Africa.