Book Discussion, anyone?
I got two new books in the mail yesterday-
Crow Dog: Four Generations of Medicine Men by Leonard Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes.
Erdoes is also the ghost writer of the book Ohitika Woman by Mary Brave Bird. Brave Bird is the ex-wife of Leonard Crow Dog and the mother of three of his children.
Has anyone read these?
Both Brave Bird and Crow Dog were leaders in the AIM movement. Both were at the BIA takeover in 1972. Both were at the riots in Custer.
Both were at the Siege at Wounded Knee. Brave Bird gave birth to her eldest son at wounded knee.
I believe that Grandpa Reaches is based on either Leonard Crow Dog or his father, Henry Crow Dog. Also, Mary Brave Bird was a very close friend of Annie Mae Aquash-who Maggie Eagle Bear is based on. There is a chapter in Brave Bird's first book, Lakota Woman, titled Two Cut Off Hands which is entirely devoted to Aquash.
Also, both were close to Dennis Banks, Russell Means and Leonard Peltier. Brave Bird mentions in Lakota Woman that she thought that Aquash and Peltier would have made a good couple but fate decided otherwise. Brave Bird writes extensively on the Native American Church and her ex-husband Leonard's work as a medicine man so they are worth reading.
Crow Dog: Four Generations of Medicine Men by Leonard Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes.
Erdoes is also the ghost writer of the book Ohitika Woman by Mary Brave Bird. Brave Bird is the ex-wife of Leonard Crow Dog and the mother of three of his children.
Has anyone read these?
Both Brave Bird and Crow Dog were leaders in the AIM movement. Both were at the BIA takeover in 1972. Both were at the riots in Custer.
Both were at the Siege at Wounded Knee. Brave Bird gave birth to her eldest son at wounded knee.
I believe that Grandpa Reaches is based on either Leonard Crow Dog or his father, Henry Crow Dog. Also, Mary Brave Bird was a very close friend of Annie Mae Aquash-who Maggie Eagle Bear is based on. There is a chapter in Brave Bird's first book, Lakota Woman, titled Two Cut Off Hands which is entirely devoted to Aquash.
Also, both were close to Dennis Banks, Russell Means and Leonard Peltier. Brave Bird mentions in Lakota Woman that she thought that Aquash and Peltier would have made a good couple but fate decided otherwise. Brave Bird writes extensively on the Native American Church and her ex-husband Leonard's work as a medicine man so they are worth reading.