Read it again and again and it is breathtaking everytime

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	• Lakota Woman Mary Crow Dog Harper Perennial, 1991 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 35 reviews view larger image
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Educational

I wanted to learn about "the res" from the Indians themselves. This book will open your eyes, short of making a trip there yourself.

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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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...

Read it again and again and it is breathtaking everytime

I found the book in a lokal bookstore while I was looking for something else. I was 17 at that time and somehow the book just cought my attention. I started to read and from that moment on I was not able to stop any more. The story is very touching and honest. It does not give the feeling that mary wants to make herself look perfect, or just blame others for the situation they are all it. It focuses on her life as a teenager and in her twenties aswell, which was a hard life. But she also sees some light in these dark times.

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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.

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