![]() ![]() Robert Brave Bird trapped in the winter and farmed in the summer. While she studied nursing in Pierre, South Dakota, her four children were raised by their grandparents. Francis Mission boarding school where she was converted to Catholicism. Mary Brave Bird’s mother, Emily Brave Bird, had been raised in a tent in the village of He-Dog on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, then taken to St. Lakota Woman, written under the name Mary Crow Dog, portrays her life from her birth to 1977, and Ohitika Woman written under her current name of Mary Brave Bird, covers events up to 1992 and adds new details to the earlier history. In these two books, written 15 years apart, Brave Bird told how the American Indian Movement (AIM) gave meaning to her life. Mary Brave Bird (Septem– February 14, 2013) dictated her life story in the two books Lakota Woman and Ohitika Woman to Richard Erdoes, a photographer and illustrator who himself became involved in political activism through having taped and transcribed her story. ![]()
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