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by Makenzie Huber, South Dakota Searchlight
February 27, 2023

The world had largely forgotten about Native American people by the early 1970s, said Marcella Gilbert.

Native populations had been decimated by disease and colonization; their sprawling homeland where ancestors had roamed was splintered into reservations.

The Lakota language was nearly extinct and practicing the Lakota religion was illegal.

“People across the world didn’t even know we still existed,” Gilbert said. “They thought John Wayne killed us all.”

An article printed during the Wounded Knee Occupation in 1973 reads that “Wounded Knee Indians ‘Are Prepared To Die'” (Courtesy of South Dakota State Archives)

But she said that began to change after South Dakota was put in the national and international spotlight starting on Feb.

27, 1973.

On that day 50 years ago, hundreds of Native Americans and Indigenous