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Lakota woman / by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes.

By:

Brave Bird, Mary

Contributor(s):

Erdoes, Richard, 1912-2008 [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York, NY : HarperPerennial, 1991Edition: First HarperPerennial editionDescription: 263 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0060973897
9780060973896

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

305.488975244092 22

LOC classification:

E99.D1 C833 1991

Contents:

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 -- Siege -- Ghosts return -- Birth giving -- Sioux and elephants never forget -- Two cut-off hands -- Cante Ishta-Eye of the heart -- Eagle caged -- Ho Uway Tinkte-My voice you shall hear -- Epilogue.

Summary: 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. Now a major movie from TNT.

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Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	305.488975244092 BRA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A054606B

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Originally published: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.

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. Now a major movie from TNT.

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