Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1994
Abstract
This book joins the burgeoning personal document data on Lakota women. The book, another as-told-to life history on Lakota women as in Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes and Cante ohitika Win (Bravehearted Women) by Carolyn Reyer, centers upon life on Cheyenne River reservation and presents another facet of feminine experiences. Collections of this genre-though often getting rave reviews in publications of the dominant society-evoke certain cautionary appraisals from persons in their natal communities. Perhaps many collectors of biography/ autobiography forget that the so-called target populations from which their subjects stem are literate.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:1 (Winter 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.