Title:
Lakota Woman / by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes.
ISBN:
9780802145420
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Publication Information:
New York : Grove Press, [2011]
©1990
Physical Description:
263 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 21 cm
General Note:
First published in 1990 by Grove Weidenfeld.
This ed. first published in 1991 by Harper Perennial.
Awards Note:
American Book Award, 1991
Contents:
A woman from He-Dog -- Invisible fathers -- Civilize them with a stick -- Drinking and fighting -- Aimlessness -- We AIM not to please -- Crying for a dream -- Cankpe Opi Wakpala -- The siege -- The ghosts return -- Birth giving -- Sioux and elephants never forget -- Two cut-off hands -- Cante Ishta: The eye of the heart -- The eagle caged -- Ho Uway Tinkte: My voice you shall hear -- Epilogue.
Summary:
Relates the experiences of a Native American woman who grew up on a reservation and joined in the revolution for Native American rights during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Audience:
970L Lexile
OCLC Number:
ocn692288724
Availability:
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