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Summary: A breathtaking autobiography..............
Review: A breathtaking autobiography by Mary Crow Dog. This autobiography dipicts the life of an Native American in South Dakota in the seventies you see this through the eyes of a young girl from childhood to adulthood. Mary tells it how it was and spares no detail which makes this book very powerful. You see the racism that the Native Americans had to go through and also their struggles against society to gain freedom. This book is a must read for anybody who's interested in Native American Culture and the struggle they had to go through to be considered equal to whites.
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Summary: Sioux woman's brave path to strength through trial
Review: Born on a Sioux reservation in the Dakotas to a wayward father and a mother who left the traditional life for Christianity, Mary Crow Dog overcomes the difficulties of a young Native American girl to become a leader in her people's movement. This autobiography follows her early days in a Christian school and culminates with her protesting and giving birth at the 1973 Wounded Knee standoff between the troubled Lakota Sioux and the US government. Written in a conversational style, the book is tragic and, at times, funny as Crow Dog demonstrates her incredible strength and sense of humour in the face of seemingly unstoppable adversity. A stunning read
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Summary: If only there were more stars to give!
Review: From the second page I was hooked! Mary Crow Dog writes like a person would speak and the result is an open, honest account of her life, growing up a Lakota Woman. She speaks of the events she experienced and the poverty she grew up in without self-pity. She shares a wisdom that only she could have, gleaned from her life, in each of it's stages as a child, a revolutionary, a mother and a wife to a powerful medicine man. She depicts the life of the Sioux woman in a simple way explaining the importance of their role. This was such an interesting book! I especially enjoyed reading the details of the Sun Dances in the book. That is a religious ritual that really intrigues me and I relished every detail.
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Summary: Lakota Woman
Review: Good book. Once you read the first three pages of Lakota Woman, you'll want to keep on reading. By,Mary Crow Dog.
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Summary: An excellent read
Review: Having to read this text for a university class, I initially did not expect to enjoy it as throughly as I actually did - I had the mindset that I would just read it once, just because I had to, and that would be that. Yet I enjoyed this book completely, with its realism and frank, yet emotional, portrayal of Indian life. I would recommend it to all; its simpistic style makes it accessible to younger readers. Whether you are interested in Indian culture or not, I guarantee you will be by the final page.
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Summary: an eye opening tale unfortunately presented in a bland tone.
Review: i found mary crow dog's style to be bland although it was very graphic. perhaps having to read this book as an assignment jaded me but i found it hard to stay awake. i enjoyed her sardonic humor towards the overbearing male sioux as well as her honest and understandable distaste for the white establishment but i felt myself lacking empathy for her cause.
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Summary: Read it again and again and it is breathtaking everytime
Review: 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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Summary: Stunning
Review: 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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Summary: Stunning
Review: 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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Summary: true lives
Review: I read this book as an assignment first as well, but that fact did not make me recognize its power any less. Being a Native American woman myself, I realize some of where Mary Crow Dog was coming from. She told her story like it happened without the Hollywood-type urgence to make it more dramatic or exploit the "plight of the dying Indian." We are not a dying race.
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