Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for women, and violence and hopeless of reservation life, she joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native American communities in the sixties and seventies. Mary eventually married Leonard Crow Dog, the American...

"Lakota Woman, winner of the American Book Award for 1991 and a national best-seller, is the moving and impassioned story of Mary Brave Bird (then Mary Crow Dog) growing up a Sioux in a hostile world. In Ohitika Woman, Mary continues her powerful, dramatic tale of ancient glory and present anguish, of courage and despair, of magic and mystery, and, above all, of the survival of both body and mind."--BOOK JACKET. "Coming home from Wounded Knee in 1973,...

One hundred illustrated stories on Indian tricksters. The characters include Coyote, a master thief and insatiable lover; Iktomi, a shapeshifting Lakota spiderman; and Veeho, the Cheyenne daredevil.

A collection of tales from the American west