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Lakota Woman
by: Mary Crow Dog

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 978.362
EAN: 9780060973896
ISBN: 0060973897
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: May 08, 1991
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: March 28, 1991
Sales Rank: 5582
Studio: Harper Perennial

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A unique autobiography unparalleled in American Indian literature, and a deeply moving account of a woman's triumphant struggle to survive in a hostile world.

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- Survival Against a World of Cultural Contradictions
This is Mary Crow Dog's story, told in her own "uneducated" words. It is a tale of struggle and survival on the outer edges of "conquered Native Land," in the Northern tier of the continent of North America, now referred to as the US of A. It is not only a story about the struggles, defeats and eventual triumphs over Northern white racism and sexism, but also one about the struggle against Native America's own sexism and cultural chauvinism against Native American women.

What is most poignant about Ms. Crow Dog's story is the utter universality of the twin human plagues of racism and sexism and how they can trap and alter the course of not just one life but generations of families of women. By simply changing the names, the shade of darkness, and the region of the country, this could be the story of any "poor woman of color" in the USA.

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- An Eye Opener
The book provided a side of an American culture that I was unaware of and frankly shocked to learn of. It wasn't a good shock either, the way in which our country treats the American Indians is appalling and actually disturbing. This is a book that should be read in history class, as its contents are not included in any history class I ever took.

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- Whiner! Poor poor pitiful you!
Oh please get out the hankie and feel oh so terribly sorry - - and guilty -for this woman and her tribe. If you light skinned, get out the scourge and whip yourself you evil white person. Only white people are bad. Only people of color are abused. I was a white girl in a foreign country struggling to learn the language and get by and I did. Now I am highly paid having gone through the experience. I learned to speak the language and adapt. Cultures change, people change, ethnic peoples are brutalized, citizens are mistreated. Ms Lakota Woman thinks her life is hard, trying being non-hispanic and live in California!

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- Lakota Woman
I learnt so much from this book, and felt myself getting angry because of her experiences. good on her for telling her story. L'Ohanna

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