She also covers aspects of the role of the FBI, the U.S. Her books describe the conditions of the Lakota Indian and her experience growing up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, as well as conditions in the neighboring Pine Ridge Indian Reservation under the leadership of tribal chairman Richard Wilson. Lakota Woman was published under the name Mary Crow Dog and won the 1991 American Book Award. Richard Erdoes, a long-time friend, helped edit the books. Writing career īrave Bird was the author of two memoirs, Lakota Woman (1990) and Ohitika Woman (1993). She was a grandmother and remained active in the Native American Church. They had Summer Olguin in 1991 and later their second, Rudy Olguin. Marriage and family īrave Bird married AIM spiritual leader Leonard Crow Dog the couple later divorced. She was also part of the 1973 Occupation of Wounded Knee.
She participated in such historical events as the 1972 Trail of Broken Treaties and subsequent occupation of the BIA headquarters in Washington, DC. In 1971 Brave Bird was inspired by a talk by Leonard Crow Dog and at age 18 joined the American Indian Movement (AIM). Francis, South Dakota, a Roman Catholic boarding school. During the 1960s, Brave Bird attended the St. īrave Bird was influenced by several relatives who followed traditional practices, including her granduncle Dick Fool Bull, who introduced her to the Native American Church. She was raised primarily by her grandparents while her mother studied in nursing school and was working. Her 1990 memoir Lakota Woman won an American Book Award in 1991 and was adapted as a made-for-TV-movie in 1994.īorn Mary Ellen Moore-Richard in 1954 on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota, she was a member of the Sicangu Oyate, also known as the Burnt Thighs Nation or Brulé Band of Lakota. Mary Brave Bird, also known as Mary Brave Woman Olguin and Mary Crow Dog (Septem– Febru) was a Sicangu Lakota writer and activist who was a member of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s and participated in some of their most publicized events, including the Wounded Knee Incident when she was 18 years old.īrave Bird lived with her youngest children on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota. Crystal Lake, Nevada County, California, U.S.
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