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Lakota Woman

By Mary Crow Dog

Lakota Woman

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The bestselling memoir of a Native American woman's struggles and the life she found in activism: "courageous, impassioned, poetic and inspirational" (Publishers Weekly). Mary Brave Bird grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota in a one-room cabin without running water or electricity. With her white father gone, she was left to endure "half-breed" status amid the violence, machismo, and aimless drinking of life on the reservation. Rebelling against all this—as well as a punishing Catholic missionary school—she became a teenage runaway. Mary was eighteen and pregnant when the rebellion at Wounded Knee happened in 1973. Inspired to take action, she joined the American Indian Movement to fight for the rights of her people. Later, she married Leonard Crow Dog, the AIM's chief medicine man, who revived the sacred but outlawed Ghost Dance. Originally published in 1990, Lakota Woman was a national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award. It is a story of determination against all odds, of the cruelties perpetuated against American Indians, and of the Native American struggle for rights. Working with Richard Erdoes, one of the twentieth century's leading writers on Native American affairs, Brave Bird recounts her difficult upbringing and the path of her fascinating life.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
272
Release Date:
2011-06-14
Publication Date:
2011-06-14
Publisher:
Grove Atlantic
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0802145426
ISBN13:
9780802145420
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
262 g
Height:
20.8 cm
Width:
13.9 cm
Thickness:
2 cm
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