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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798605903321

Autore

Agonito Joseph

Titolo

Brave hearts : Indian women of the Plains / / Joseph Agonito

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Guilford, Connecticut ; ; Helena, Montana : , : TwoDot, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-4930-1906-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 pages)

Disciplina

920.0092/97078

Soggetti

Indian women - Great Plains

Indians of North America - Great Plains

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Woman Chief: leader of her people -- Osh Tisch: becoming a woman -- Running Eagle: brave-hearted woman -- Buffalo Calf Road: warrior woman -- Kate Bighead: wartime reporter -- Iron Teeth: strong-willed survivor -- Medicine Snake woman: embracing the white world -- Eagle Woman: peace emissary -- Cynthia Ann Parker: white Comanche -- Monahsetah: Custer's captive "wife" -- Pretty Shield: remembering the old days -- Buffalo Bird Woman: keeping the traditions alive -- Josephine Crowfeather: Catholic nun -- Sanapia: Comanche medicine woman -- The la Flesche sisters: walking in two worlds -- Josephine Waggoner: Lakota historian -- Zitkala-Sa: woman of the world -- Lost Bird: sacred child of the Wounded Knee battlefield -- Mary Brave Bird: defender of her people -- Suanne Big Crow: shooting star -- Rosebud Yellow Robe: living in the big city -- Lillian Bullshows Hogan: "a plain Crow woman".

Sommario/riassunto

Brave Hearts: Indian Women of the Plains tells the story of Plains Indian women through a series of fascinating vignettes. They are a remarkable group of women – some famous, some obscure. Some were hunters, some were warriors and, in a rare case, one was a chief; some lived extraordinary lives, while others lived more quietly in their lodges. Some were born into traditional families and knew their place in society while others were bi-racial who struggled to find their place in a world conflicted between Indian and white. Some never knew anything but the



old, nomadic way of life while others lived-on to suffer through the reservation years. Others were born on the reservation but did their best in difficult times to keep to the old ways. Some never left the reservation while others ventured out into the larger world. All, in their own way, were Plains Indian women.