Lakota woman
Title:
Lakota woman
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.
General Note:
Originally published: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.
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.
Physical Description:
263 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.
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Publisher:
HarperPerennial,
Publication Date:
1991
1990
ISBN:
9780060973896
Publication Information:
New York : HarperPerennial, 1991, c1990.
Call Number:
970.3 BRAVE