Bibliograph

Lakota Woman, by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes

Type

Label

Lakota Woman, by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Intended audience

970L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Lakota Woman

Oclc number

692288724

Responsibility statement

by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

A woman from He-Dog -- Invisible fathers -- Civilize them with a stick -- Drinking and fighting -- Aimlessness -- We AIM not to please -- Crying for a dream -- Cankpe Opi Wakpala -- The siege -- The ghosts return -- Birth giving -- Sioux and elephants never forget -- Two cut-off hands -- Cante Ishta: The eye of the heart -- The eagle caged -- Ho Uway Tinkte: My voice you shall hear

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