Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog

Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog

Mary Crow Dog grew up on a reservation in South Dakota, where she lived in a one-room cabin without running water or electricity. She was educated at a Catholic boarding school where Indian children were beaten as an incentive to give up their native language and traditions. As a teenager, Crow Dog became involved with the American Indian Movement (AIM). She participated in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington and the 1973 Siege of Wounded Knee, during which she gave birth to her first child.

Crow Dog's award-winning autobiography Lakota Woman is a harrowing tale, told by a woman treated as an outsider in her own country and forced to confront misogyny in her own tribe. It's also the tale of a woman who fights for her people and rediscovers Sioux spirituality and values. Lakota Woman is an honest and powerful story that is also an indispensable addition to the story of America.Mary Brave Bird, AKA Mary Crow Dog, was born in 1953 on Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. She is a member of the Sicangu Oyate (Burnt Thighs Nation) of the Lakota Sioux. Brave Bird's books include Lakota Woman, which won the 1991 American Book Award and was made into the movie "Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee," and Ohitika Woman. "Simply told -- and at times simply horrifying." -- New York Times Book Review

On a South Dakota reservation, Mary Brave Bird grew up without a father in a one-room cabin with no running water or electricity. She joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native American communities in the 1960s and 1970s, eventually marrying Leonard Crow Dog, the movement's main medicine man, who restored the sacred but forbidden Ghost Dance. She was rebelling against the aimless drinking, harsh missionary education, restrictive strictures for women, and violence and hopelessness of reserve life.

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ISBN 13	9780060973896
ISBN 10	0060973897
Title	Lakota Woman
Author	Mary Crow Dog
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	1991-03-28
Number of pages	288
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