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Mary Crow Dog
“Native American women traditionally
belonged to a culture that gave them respect and where they had power, autonomy
and equality. Through the last hundred years and due to European colonization
they have lost all that they had” (Jacqui Popick, Online
Article, 2007).
Mary Crow Dog’s mother, Emily Brave Bird,
who had spent the earlier part of her childhood on the Rosebud Reservation in
South Dakota, was sent away to be educated at the St Francis Mission boarding
school, where she was converted to Christianity. Taught to be ashamed of her
heritage, despite having descended from a distinguished family, Emily sent all
four of her children, including Mary, to the same Catholic school, refusing
either to teach them about their cultural background or their native language (Lakota
Woman, 1990).
Mary’s childhood, which was ….
