Review of Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story

Authors

Beatrice Medicine, Wakpala, South Dakota

Date of this Version

1994

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:1 (Winter 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

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.