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eligal
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Lakota Woman
#6620131 - 02/28/07 11:44 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Anyone read it?
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Re: Lakota Woman [Re: eligal]
#6620146 - 02/28/07 11:51 AM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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Yes, I enjoyed it a lot. I read it for an anthropology class. Although I generally read non-fiction anyway. So it fit in nicely with my reading list. She wrote another book later in her life Called Ohitika woman. She is now Mary Brave Bird instead of Mary Crow Dog.
Was there anything else, or just seeing if anyone read it?
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From Publishers Weekly Sequel to the bestseller Lakota Woman (Brave Bird was then known as Mary Crow Dog), this candid memoir by a forceful feminist Native American should please fans despite redundancies and meanderings. "Ohitika" means "brave" in Lakota, and Brave Bird, a 36-year-old grandmother, fulfills that appellation in recounting the peripatetic life she led after 1977, when her first book concluded. Writing with Erdoes ( The Pueblo Indians ), she devotes chapters to the peyote-using Native American Church, to the rituals of a Lakota sweat lodge and to the Sioux's fight for ancestral lands; but the book centers on her personal struggle against alcohol abuse. Though life with her former husband Leonard Crow Dog brought his "half-breed" wife to her roots and to political activism, the couple grew antagonistic, and she took refuge in drink. Even during her 1991 book tour she went on binges; a suicide by an alcoholic friend finally led her to abstinence. She got married in 1991 and returned with her husband to the "res"--the reservation--in South Dakota. Photos not seen by PW . Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
http://www.amazon.com/Ohitika-Woman-B-Brave/dp/0060975830/sr=8-2/qid=1172688503/ref=sr_1_2/105-1163807-0391613?ie=UTF8&s=books
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eligal
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Re: Lakota Woman [Re: C20H25N3O]
#6620373 - 02/28/07 01:15 PM (16 years, 10 months ago) |
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-------------------- \m/ Spanksta \m/ "do you have the freedom to do with your nervous system what you want?" "MolokoMilkPlus said: I'll respect you if you let me give you a blow job" "tactik said: respect the can."
Edited by eligal (03/01/07 01:44 PM)
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