![]() ![]() It is a story of determination against all odds, of the cruelties perpetuated against American Indians, and of the Native American struggle for rights. Originally published in 1990, Lakota Woman was a national bestseller and winner of the American Book Award. ![]() ![]() Later, she married Leonard Crow Dog, the AIM's chief medicine man, who revived the sacred but outlawed Ghost Dance. Inspired to take action, she joined the American Indian Movement to fight for the rights of her people. Mary was eighteen and pregnant when the rebellion at Wounded Knee happened in 1973. Rebelling against all this-as well as a punishing Catholic missionary school-she became a teenage runaway. With her white father gone, she was left to endure "half-breed" status amid the violence, machismo, and aimless drinking of life on the reservation. Mary Brave Bird grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota in a one-room cabin without running water or electricity. The bestselling memoir of a Native American woman's struggles and the life she found in activism: "courageous, impassioned, poetic and inspirational" (Publishers Weekly). ![]()
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