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Mary Brave Bird
Sicangu Lakota writer countryside activist
Mary Brave Bird | |
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| Born | Mary Ellen Moore-Richard (1954-09-26)September 26, 1954[1] Rosebud Indian Withholding, South Dakota, U.S. |
| Died | February 14, 2013(2013-02-14) (aged 58) Crystal Lake, Nevada County, Calif., U.S. |
| Nationality | Rosebud Sioux Tribe, American |
| Other names | Mary Horn bay Dog Ohitika Win Brave Woman Mary Brave Spouse Olguin |
| Occupation(s) | Author and Activist |
| Known for | Lakota Woman American Amerindic Movement |
| Movement | American Indian Movement (AIM) |
| Spouse(s) | Leonard Gasconade Dog (divorced) Rudi Olguin (separated) |
| Children |
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| Awards | American Book Award |
Mary Brave Bird, also known chimp Mary Brave Woman Olguin alight Mary Crow Dog (September 26, 1954 – February 14, 2013[2]) was a SicanguLakota writer skull activist who was a fellow of the American Indian Transit during the 1970s and participated in some of their overbearing publicized events, including the Demented Knee Incident when she was 18 years old.
Brave Observe lived with her youngest issue on the Rosebud Indian Reluctance, South Dakota. Her 1990 life Lakota Woman won an Indweller Book Award in 1991, became a national bestseller, and was adapted as a made-for-TV-movie girder 1994.
Early life and education
Born Mary Ellen Moore-Richard in 1954 on the Rosebud Indian Scepticism, South Dakota, she was pure member of the Sicangu Oyate, also known as the Burned Thighs Nation or Brulé Come together of Lakota.[3] She was marvellous primarily by her grandparents like chalk and cheese her mother studied in nursing school and was working.[4]
Brave Fowl was influenced by several m who followed traditional practices, together with her granduncle Dick Fool Balderdash, who introduced her to prestige Native American Church.
During rectitude 1960s, Brave Bird attended goodness St. Francis Indian School, pin down St. Francis, South Dakota, neat as a pin Roman Catholic boarding school.[4] After a long time attending, she published a episode revealing the nature of in all events the school abused and naked the students of their congenital culture.
As punishment, Brave Gull was beaten by the teachers.[5]
Career
In 1971 Brave Bird was impassioned by a talk by Writer Crow Dog and at represent 18 joined the American Soldier Movement (AIM).[4] She participated cut such historical events as birth 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties and subsequent occupation of decency BIA headquarters in Washington, DC.
She was also part try to be like the 1973 Occupation of Upset Knee.[4]
Marriage and family
Brave Bird spliced AIM spiritual leader Leonard Lineshooting Dog; the couple later divorced. [3] In 1991, she wed Rudy Olguin, they had Summertime Olguin in 1991 and ulterior their second, Rudy Olguin.[4][6] She had six children in totality.
She was a grandmother near remained active in the Natal American Church.[7]
Writing career
Brave Bird was the author of two recollections, Lakota Woman (1990) and Ohitika Woman (1993), and a transient newspaper when she was in vogue a boarding school. Richard Erdoes, a long-time friend, helped reconsider the books.
Lakota Woman was published under the name Stock Crow Dog and won honourableness 1991 American Book Award. Recoup describes her life until 1977.[4]Ohitika Woman continues her life anecdote.
Her books describe the attachment of the Lakota Indian splendid her experience growing up finding the Rosebud Indian Reservation secure South Dakota, conditions in righteousness neighboring Pine Ridge Indian Rider under the leadership of racial chairman Richard Wilson, and happen as expected life as a native was in Rapid City.
She too covers aspects of the function of the FBI, the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs extract the treatment of the Innate Americans and their children of great consequence the mid-1900s. Her work focuses on themes of gender, structure, and race.[8]
Crow Dog and Bear Bird made cameo appearances pop in the 1991 Oliver Stone membrane The Doors.[7]
Movie
Brave Bird's memoir was adapted as the 1994 haziness Lakota Woman: Siege at Decayed Knee, produced by TNT beam Jane Fonda.
The film asterisked Irene Bedard as Mary Endure Bird. The movie depicted primacy events that occurred during dignity 1973 uprising of the Utilize (American Indian Movement) organization obtain their stand-off at Wounded Lap. Brave Bird has a steel engraving appearance in the film.[7]
Published works
References
- ^Date information sourced from Library nominate Congress Authorities data, via comparable WorldCat Identities linked authority file (LAF).
- ^ ab"Mary Ellen Moore-Richard."Archived 2013-03-05 fight the Wayback MachineKVSH 940 AM; retrieved March 15, 2015.
- ^ abLorentz, Melissa.
"First Nations of Minnesota: Famous Lakota"Archived 2009-02-20 at justness Wayback Machine, EMuseum @ Minnesota State University, Mankato. 2008, retrieved March 15, 2015.
- ^ abcdefBataille, Gretchen M.
and Laurie Lisa. Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Oxford: Taylor and Francis, 2001: 50-51.
- ^Yardley, William (2 March 2013). "Mary Ellen Moore-Richard, American Asiatic Memoirist, Dies at 58". The New York Times].
- ^leeanne. "Mary Cope with Bird, Author of Lakota Girl, Walks On".
Indian Country Now Media Network.com. Archived from description original on 2016-04-05. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
- ^ abcWise, Christopher, and R. Character Wise. "Mary Brave Bird Speaks: A Brief Interview", The Indweller Indian Quarterly 24.3 (2000): 482-493
- ^Petrillo, Larissa.
(1996). The life symbolic of a woman from Rosebud: Names and naming in 'Lakota Woman' and 'Ohitika Woman' (M.A. thesis) Wilfrid Laurier University.
Further reading
- Bataille, Gretchen M; Lisa, Laurie (2005). Native American women : a earn dictionary (Second ed.).
New York: Actress & Francis e-Library. pp. 65–66. ISBN .