Book Review of Lakota Woman
Lakota Woman I have come to the conclusion that if you are going to read both biographies of Mary Brave Bird, start off with Lakota Woman. ... In Lakota Woman, Mary opens up with the fact that she is a woman of the Red Nation, and how it is not easy. This will set the stage for the rest of the book. ... In that way the boarding schools were born (Lakota Woman 30). ... Then it is done, no matter how brave its warriors nor how strong their weapons (Lakota Woman 3). It is this Cheyenne proverb that exemplifies the theme of the book. ... She gives the reader a blunt reality of being a Indian woman. ... It was almost like the Ghost Dance fever that had hit the tribes…Meeting up with AIM for the first time loosened a sort of earthquake inside me (Lakota Woman 74). ... Yes, I would have accepted poverty, dignified, uninterfered-with poverty, but not the drunken, degrading, and humiliating poverty we had to endure (Lakota Woman 112).