![]() ![]() The book also describes AIM's renewal of spirituality as manifested in sweat lodges, peyote ceremonies, sacred songs and the Ghost Dance ritual. The authors write of AIM's infiltration by FBI agents, of Mary Crow Dog helping her husband endure prison, of Indian males' macho attitudes. She ran away from a coldly impersonal boarding school run by nuns where, she reports, Indian students were beaten to induce them to give up native customs and speech. ![]() Her girlhood, a vicious circle of drinking and fighting, was marked by poverty, racism and a rape at 14. ![]() Lakota woman I by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes. Written with Erdoes ( Lame Deer Seeker of Visions ), her searing autobiography is courageous, impassioned, poetic and inspirational. A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1990 by Grove. Ohitika Woman, published under the name Mary Brave Bird, continues her. Lakota Woman was published under the name Mary Crow Dog and won the 1991 American Book Award. Richard Erdoes, a long-time friend, helped edit the books. Seventeen years old at the time, she married fellow activist Leonard Crow Dog, medicine man and spiritual leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM). Brave Bird was the author of two memoirs, Lakota Woman (1990) and Ohitika Woman (1993). Mary Brave Bird gave birth to a son during the 71-day siege of Wounded Knee in 1973, which ended with a bloody assault by U.S. ![]()
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