Lakota Woman (Identities and Issues in Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Mary Brave Bird, Richard Erdoes
- First Published: 1990
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Biracial people, Protests or demonstrations, Native Americans or American Indians, Multiculturalism, Women, South Dakota
The Work
Lakota Woman describes Mary Crow Dog’s life from her birth in 1953 to the early 1970’s. Daughter of a full-blooded Lakota mother and a white father, Crow Dog was reared by her mother on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation in tiny He Dog, South Dakota. She is a member of the Brule (Burned Thigh) or Sichangu Tribe, one of seven that constitute the Lakota (also known as Sioux) Nation. Before identifying herself with the American Indian Movement (AIM), she attended a grim and repressive Catholic school and lived a marginal existence as a shoplifter. The central events...
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