“In our way, our culture, we’ve always had women leaders.
But not in the way the rest of the country sees it and does things.
So women have always basically been in charge of the camp,
whatever that means, through the generations.
So it isn’t like all of a sudden there’s all this women leadership.
No, we’ve had it, and it’s built up.
Whoever does the work ends up being the leader.
So, what does that tell you?
There’s a lot of women leaders!”
– Madonna Thunder Hawk
November 2016, Oceti Šakowiŋ camp