![]() ![]() And there she met Leonard Crow Dog, a leader and medicine man who knew the ancient ways and instilled the young warriors with pride. Mary watched friends die at Wounded Knee, but she also gave birth there-a symbolic rebirth for her embattled people. Site of a historic massacre of Indian women and children, the tiny town became an Indian fortress, defended by the modern warriors of AIM against heavily armed federal forces. She was 18 and pregnant when her life was changed by the rebellion at Wounded Knee. ![]() A half-blood abandoned by her white father, she became a rebel by her teens, leaving a cruelly repressive Catholic school and an overburdened mother in order to roam the western highways with other young Indian rebels, drinking and ripping-off stores. She was born Mary Brave Bird, in 1953, on South Dakota's bleak Rosebud Reservation. ""That is not easy."" With the help of Erdoes (coeditor, American Indian Myths and Legends, 1984, etc.), Crow Dog uses her life as an example of the humiliations and hardships of modern Indian life-but in her case, a life vindicated by the brave defiance of the American Indian Movement (AIM). I am a woman of the Red Nation, a Sioux woman,"" writes Mary Crow Dog. ![]()
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