Lakota Woman | Mary Crow Dog | WARNING: This book can be addictive...

Lakota Woman | Mary Crow Dog | As a half Lakota Woman.....

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Lakota Woman

	Lakota Woman Mary Crow Dog Harper Perennial, 1991 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 37 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

WARNING: This book can be addictive...

This is a book you may have a very hard time putting down. It is a dramatic autobiography of a life full of struggle, oppression, action and empowerment. This book is intense and a must read. The challenges and experiences of Native Americans during the peak of the American Indian Movement in the 1970's is highlighted here. You get it first hand from the personal experience of an amazing woman. She was in the middle of it all standing up for the rights of her people and supporting the others around her who were fighting like hell for justice and their rights. This book sparks a lot of tears and anger, as well as much laughter. You will find history of the American Indian Movement and the siege at Wounded Knee, as well as a great story and much more here written in an easy to read, personal manner. It's as if you were sitting across from her at the kitchen table listening to her tell the tales of her life. It reads like a magnetic, fiction novel while educating like a history book. Highly recommended!!

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As a half Lakota Woman.....

She gives me nothing but strength and courage. I admire her plight during a time when American Indians were a bigger enemy when Iraq is now. She experienced a time when the Gov/t brought in tanks on the Lakota Rez.

This book, while an autobiography is more like how history books should be written. Through the eyes of someone who was there!!

You will enjoy this book, everyone I know who has read it has loved it.

Stunning

I learned so much of the Indian plight as well as Lakota history and ceremonies, blended in with the author's own personal experiences. Mary Brave Bird's writing is clear, straight-to-the-point, and left me quite angry at the treatment that has been given to indigenous peoples.

I hope she writes more books in the future...

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It Grabs You

The first chapter is tough to read. After almost every page I had to take a break. The author never releases the hold she has on the reader for the rest of the book. I read it three times in the first month. I couldn't put it down. So many books on Native Americans end in 1890 as if Indians dropped off the face of the earth after the first Wounded Knee. This book is an eyewitness account of recent Lakota history. A look at how many Native Americans are still struggling for civil rights and still struggling to find themselves.

Lakota Woman

To experience the full impact of this book read "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" first and then read this book.

Before I even picked this book up from the shelf I thought of the Cheyenne proverb, "A nation is not conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground. Then it is done, no matter how brave its warriors nor how strong their weapons." Then I opened the book, and this quote was written at the beginning of the first chapter.

This book is essential for understanding what has been done, and is being done to Native American women and girls. Mary Crow Dog tells her own courageous story, and that of many brave women before her.

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