Lakota woman / by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.Edition: 1st edDescription: 263 p., [16] p. of plates ; 22 cmISBN:- 0802111017 (alk. paper) :
- 9780802145420 (pbk.)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Biography | CROW DOG, M. C953 | Checked out | 05/13/2024 | 33111010623813 | |||
Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | Crow Dog, M. C953 | Available | 33111010493084 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A powerful autobiography of Mary Brave Bird who grew up fatherless in a one-roomcabin without running water or electricity on the Rosebud Reservation in SouthDakota.
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 -- Epilogue.
A unique autobiography unparalleled in American Indian literature, and a deeply moving account of a woman's triumphant struggle to survive in a hostile world. This is the powerful autobiography of Mary Brave Bird, who grew up in the misery of a South Dakota reservation. Rebelling against the violence and hopelessness of reservation life, she joined the tribal pride movement in an effort to bring about much-needed changes.