Lakota Woman - Hardcover

Crow Dog, Mary; Erdoes, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802111017 ISBN 13: 9780802111012

Publisher: Grove Pr, 1990

Synopsis

Relates the experiences of an Indian woman who grew up on a reservation and joined in the revolution for Indian rights in the sixties and seventies

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About the Author:

Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity on a South Dakota reservation. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for women, and violence and hopelessness of reservation life, she joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native American communities in the sixties and seventies and eventually married Leonard Crow Dog, the movement's chief medicine man, who revived the sacred but outlawed Ghost Dance.

From School Library Journal:

Mary Crow Dog narrates the story of her youth in this anguished account of growing up Indian in America. After participating in AIM (the new American Indian Movement), she joined the stand-off at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, where she gave birth to a [son]. Her marriage to Leonard Crow Dog, a medicine man who revived the sacred Ghost Dance, was a learning experience for her; she was assimilated into his family. Short, choppy sentences impart a sense that Mary Crow Dog is speaking directly to readers, and her story is startling in its intensity of feeling and its directness about the Indians' reliance on their heritage and religion. A unique account of a way of life unknown to most Americans, this pulls readers in and holds them. By no means a pretty account--the author is graphic in her accounts of drunkenness, lawlessness, killings, and drug use--the book is an important bridge to cultural understanding, and a volume that should be in every library. --Dorothy L. Addison, Woodlawn School, Fairfax County, VA
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About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0802111017
• ISBN 13: 9780802111012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 263