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Book Review of Lakota Woman

Lakota Woman
Lakota Woman
Author: Mary Crow Dog
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History
Book Type: Paperback
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This is an interesting and moving book, capturing the life a women in the midst of the American Indian Movement in the 1970's. She describes life on the reservation as a younger woman and details the harrowing and sordid quality of life, revealing the poverty, struggle and rampant racism of her native South Dakota. Moved by the activism of A.I.M., she gives first hands accounts of the Trail of Broken Treaties and the seizure of Wounded Knee.