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A unique autobiography unparalleled in american indian literature, and a deeply moving account of a womans triumphant struggle to survive. A unique autobiography unparalleled in american indian literature, and a deeply moving account of a woman s triumphant struggle to survive in a hostile world. Mary brave bird grew up fatherless in a oneroom cabin, without running water or electricity on a south dakota reservation. Drinking and fighting after quitting school, crow dog spends her time in poor towns on the reservation, where lease money and adc checks were drunk up 43 and people cram into brokendown cars to joyride from town to town. I am a woman of the red nation, a sioux woman, writes mary crow dog.
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