Lakota Woman

Brave Bird, Mary (Author). Erdoes, Richard, 1912-2008 (Added Author).

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0802145426
ISBN: 9780802145420
Physical Description: 263 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Publisher: New York : Grove Press, [2011], ©1990.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published in 1990 by Grove Weidenfelf. This ed. originally published in 1991 by Harper Perennial. Made into a Golden Globe-nominated TNT original movie in 1994. Lakota woman: Siege at Wounded Knee.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Awards Note:	American Book Award, 1991