brave bird, mary

Story of Mary Crow Dog, nee Mary Brave Bird, who rebelled against the life of the South Dakota Indian reservation and participated in the beginning of the tribal movements of the sixties and seventies.

Mary Crow Dog, a Sioux Indian, grew up poor on a South Dakota Reservation. She joined the new movement of tribal pride in the 1960's and 1970's and married Leonard Crow Dog, the movement's chief medicine man, who revived the sacred but outlawed Ghost Dance. Her story is one of survival and determination against all odds.