Summary of Mary Crow Dog & Richard Erdoes' Lakota Woman

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#1 It is not the big, dramatic things that get us down, but just being Indian, trying to hang on to our way of life while being surrounded by a more powerful culture.

#2 I am a Sioux from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. I belong to the Burned Thigh, the Brule Tribe, the Sicangu in our language. The Brules were part of the Seven Sacred Campfires, the seven tribes of the Western Sioux known collectively as Lakota.

#3 The first Wounded Knee, the massacre, happened in 1891. In 1876, Spotted Tail, the all-powerful chief, had his Indian police keep most of the young men on the reservation. Some of the young bucks managed to sneak out trying to get to Montana, but nothing much is known.

#4 I am a small woman, not much over five feet tall, but I can hold my own in a fight. I have white blood in me, and I have always wished to be able to purge it out of me.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 8, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822544550

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Insights on Mary Crow Dog & Richard Erdoes's Lakota Woman

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

It is not the big, dramatic things that get us down, but just being Indian, trying to hang on to our way of life while being surrounded by a more powerful culture.

#2

I am a Sioux from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. I belong to the Burned Thigh, the Brule Tribe, the Sicangu in our language. The Brules were part of the Seven Sacred Campfires, the seven tribes of the Western Sioux known collectively as Lakota.

#3

The first Wounded Knee, the massacre, happened in 1891. In 1876, Spotted Tail, the all-powerful chief, had his Indian police keep most of the young men on the reservation. Some of the young bucks managed to sneak out trying to get to Montana, but nothing much is known.

#4

I am a small woman, not much over five feet tall, but I can hold my own in a fight. I have white blood in me, and I have always wished to be able to purge it out of me.

#5

The first Crow Dog was a well-known chief. He was wounded in battle, and a coyote came to warm him and a crow showed him the way home. His name should be Crow Coyote, but the white interpreter misunderstood it and so they became Crow Dogs.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Sioux tribe was known for their strong family ties, and it was these family ties that were torn apart by the white man. The government forced the Sioux into the nuclear family, and now there is no tiyospaye left, just Indian kids without parents.

#2

I had a father who was not interested