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Pretty-shield : medicine woman of the Crows / Frank B. Linderman ; preface to the Bison Books edition by Alma Snell & Becky Matthews.

Title: Pretty-shield : medicine woman of the Crows / Frank B. Linderman ; preface to the Bison Books edition by Alma Snell & Becky Matthews.
Author: Linderman, Frank Bird, 1869-1938
Publication: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2003.

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xviii, 148 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"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."--Back cover.

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Red mother

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Red mother

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ISBN

0803280254 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003053708

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