Mary Crow Dog Quotes

Mary Brave Bird, also known as Mary Brave Woman Olguin, Mary Crow Dog was a Sicangu Lakota writer and activist who was a member of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s and participated in some of their most publicized events, including the Wounded Knee Incident when she was 18 years old.

Brave Bird lived with her youngest children on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota. Her 1990 memoir Lakota Woman won an American Book Award in 1991 and was adapted as a made-for-TV-movie in 1994. Wikipedia

✵ 26. September 1954 – 14. February 2013

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Famous Mary Crow Dog Quotes

“I could not help noticing the great role women played in Pueblo society. Women owned the houses and actually built them. Children often got their mother's last name, not their father's. Sons joined their mother's clans. It made me a little jealous.”

Mary Crow Dog book Lakota Woman

Source: Lakota Woman (1990), p. 106

“We did freak out the honkies. We were feared throughout the Dakotas. I could never figure out why this should have been so. We were always the victims. We never maimed or killed. It was we who died or got crippled.”

Mary Crow Dog book Lakota Woman

Source: Lakota Woman (1990), p. 80

“The blacks want what the whites have, which is understandable. They want in. We Indians want out!”

Mary Crow Dog book Lakota Woman

That is the main difference.
Source: Lakota Woman (1990), p. 77

“To me, women's lib was mainly a white, upper-middle class affair of little use to a reservation Indian woman.”

Mary Crow Dog book Lakota Woman

Source: Lakota Woman (1990), p. 244

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