About this title: In this autobiography, Mary Crow Dog, a Lakota Sioux, tells of her youth, when her heritage was discouraged by her mother, and of her later education into Indian ways under the tutelage of Leonard Crow Dog, a Sioux medicine man. Active in the Indian civil rights movement, Mary Crow Dog was at the Wounded Knee incident, and her autobiography ...
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060973896ISBN:0060973897
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Near NEW copy read more
Description: Good. 0060973897 This book is in Good Used Condition. The Book shows some signs of wear. There may be some markings inside the book. The pages have started to yellow. 100% Money Back Guarantee! ! ! read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060973896ISBN:0060973897
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has slight wear at corners with creases; text is marked in several areas neatly with sparse notes, some underlining and other marks in margins; moderately tanned pages. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060973896ISBN:0060973897
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. MInor fanning of front cover. Otherwise, no flaws. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060973896ISBN:0060973897
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Good copy. read more
Edition: Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial, New York
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060973896ISBN:0060973897
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library. clean and tight, light edge wear. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060973896ISBN:0060973897
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. excellent condition, no rips or markings. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 288 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Edition: 5th Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.2
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780060973896ISBN:0060973897
Description: Near Fine. 5" x 8" 263 Pages. A hint of age-tanning at top of pages. Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on a South Dakota reservaiton. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for women, and violence and hopoelessness of reservation life, she joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native Maerican communities in the sixties and seventies and eventually married Leonard Crow Dog, the ... read more
"I've read this book several times in the past and really, really enjoyed reading it again. Mary Crow Dog's courage, integrity and strength are amazingly inspiring. After having done quite a bit of cultural studies, this time it gave me also a real felt sense of the predicament of Native American culture, and with that large parts of the world population, of the difficult struggle in leap-frogging stages of development and the suffering this creates. And perhaps it was also nagging my Objibway ancestor's fighter spirit - but I really love the spirit of the people and feel great sympathy with their struggle, which is easy to dismiss from a superior Postmodern standpoint."
"It is difficult to review a book with repetitive writing and disorganized structure, but an important message. Mary Crow Dog's life illustrates many of the disconnects and difficulties of the American Indian, at least those of the South Dakota area. Her powerful message overcomes any writing issues and her raw delivery of it overcomes any apathy.
The author carefully provides readers the histories and relationships of various tribes, as well as explanations of important religious ceremonies. Her courage, though raw and sometimes untempered, triumphs in light of the fact that she was a highly pregnant teenager at the 1972 siege of Wounded Knee, delivering a baby near the end. Her book is one of many to remind us of past tragedy in hope of a changed future. There cannot be too many of those."
"Can I give 6 stars?? Minus the flavorful swearwords, that actually I see as vital a lot of times---how else can you express it?, I was so affected. Any book I ever gave a 5 to has got to step down a bit to give this one of the highest ratings I've given to any other.
Maybe it's the recent trip to South Dakota, or the recent read of Crazy Horse and Custer. Or the 12 1/2% "indian" in me---but this is a story I wish had been required reading...I was only 4 when most of this took place, so how could I know. But, really, how could we all NOT know?"
"Mary Crow Dog is a half-Native America woman who grew up in the poverty of a South Dakota reservation, near Pine Ridge. Without a father, and uncertain of her identity, Mary Crow Dog tells the story of being a woman in a fiercely macho society intent on raising warriors. She tells of the historical struggle of her people - the Oglala Sioux - against the United States government, and the abuse she suffered in Catholic schools. Mary Crow Dog provides insight into the hopelessness and helplessness of Native Americans in the United States, and how those feelings translate into such high rates of alcoholism and suicide, and what such an identity among a people does to its women. Mary Crow Dog becomes part of the militant American Indian Movement (AIM), immersed in political action. She speaks with pride about the Ghost Dance and her experiences in sweat lodges and the power of her people. Her story is simply told, and while she explains her experiences with some insight - in terms of individual and group psychology - at times it seems a bit too simplistic. What is clear is that Mary Crow Dog has witnessed and survived unspeakable trauma - and she has told a version of her story. While she is a strong woman who wants to speak out against the abuse suffered by Native American women, she is also clearly loyal to her husband and to her tribal way of life. She feels different because of her half-breed status, but other than stating that she is at all times at outsider, she did not adequately articulate the treatment she received because of this. Lakota Woman is an important window into the lives of Native Americas - into their culture and all the traditions that merit so much pride - but also into the destruction and terror caused by the United States government. The book left me with many questions about the Pine Ridge reservation and the Sioux people, and I hope to find other books that will help me to better understand these myriad issues."
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