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Lakota Woman

Lakota Woman

Lakota Woman is a memoir by Mary Brave Bird, a Sicangu Lakota who was formerly known as Mary Crow Dog. Reared on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, she describes her childhood and young adulthood, which included many historical events associated with the American Indian Movement.


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

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

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