| Pretty-Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows (Second Edition) Contributor(s): Linderman, Frank B. (Author), Snell, Alma Hogan (Preface by), Matthews, Becky (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 0803280254 ISBN-13: 9780803280250 Publisher: Bison Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2003 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Pretty-shield, the legendary medicine woman of the Crows, remembered what life was like on the Plains when the buffalo were still plentiful. A powerful healer who was forceful, astute, and compassionate, Pretty-shield experienced many changes as her formerly mobile people were forced to come to terms with reservation life in the late nineteenth century. Pretty-shield told her story to Frank Linderman through an interpreter and using sign language. The lives, responsibilities, and aspirations of Crow women are vividly brought to life in these pages as Pretty-shield recounts her life on the Plains of long ago. She speaks of the simple games and dolls of an Indian childhood and the work of the girls and women--setting up the lodges, dressing the skins, picking berries, digging roots, and cooking. Through her eyes we come to understand courtship, marriage, childbirth and the care of babies, medicine-dreams, the care of the sick, and other facets of Crow womanhood. Alma Snell and Becky Matthews provide a new preface to this edition. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Native American & Aboriginal - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | Native American |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003053708 |
| Physical Information: 0.36" H x 5.28" W x 8" (0.41 lbs) 150 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Plains |
