Lakota woman
Mary Brave Bird (Author), Richard Erdoes (Author), Ellen J. Lehman (Donor)
Sicangu Lakota Mary Crow Dog was born in 1955 and raised in poverty on the Rosebud Reservation. In 1971 at age 18, she joined the American Indian Movement (AIM). Her marriage to Leonard Crow Dog, a medicine man who revived the sacred Ghost Dance, was a learning experience for her; she was assimilated into his family. She became an activist, participating in the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, and giving birth to her first child while under fire at the 1973 siege of Wounded Knee. In this unique account of a way of life unknown to most Americans, her story is startling in its directness about the Indians' reliance on their cultural heritage and religion. Mary Crow Dog exemplifies the contemporary movement back to Native land, religion, and values, while her caustic humor sparks this matter-of-fact narrative. 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
Print Book, English, 1990
Grove Weidenfeld, New York, 1990