Summary of Mary Brave Bird's Ohitika Woman

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I had become very depressed. I had no place to live, and my book had not sold well. I was constantly borrowing money from my co-author Richard. I was often getting drunk, and when I was, I would get rowdy and foul-mouthed.
#2 I was partying with some friends on March 28 when I wrecked. I was taken to the tribal hospital, where they thought that my neck had been broken. I was flown to the big hospital at Sioux Falls. My mother came down from He Dog to be with me.
#3 I had been going through a lot before the accident, and was depressed. I had been drinking heavily, and when I woke up after the surgery, I had a vision of my grandma, who had raised me, telling me to go back to the world and my responsibilities.
#4 After the accident, I spent a month in the hospital. They put staples in my back and in other spots where I had surgery. I couldn’t move at all, and I had to call the nurse whenever I wanted to change position. I was eventually able to get around, but I was restless and tired of being cooped up in a hospital.

Sujets

• Autobiography
• Regional
• Indigenous
• Biography
• Native American
• Cultural
• Ethnic
• Aboriginal

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 03 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822543201
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Mary Brave Bird's Ohitika Woman
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I had become very depressed. I had no place to live, and my book had not sold well. I was constantly borrowing money from my co-author Richard. I was often getting drunk, and when I was, I would get rowdy and foul-mouthed.

#2

I was partying with some friends on March 28 when I wrecked. I was taken to the tribal hospital, where they thought that my neck had been broken. I was flown to the big hospital at Sioux Falls. My mother came down from He Dog to be with me.

#3

I had been going through a lot before the accident, and was depressed. I had been drinking heavily, and when I woke up after the surgery, I had a vision of my grandma, who had raised me, telling me to go back to the world and my responsibilities.

#4

After the accident, I spent a month in the hospital. They put staples in my back and in other spots where I had surgery. I couldn’t move at all, and I had to call the nurse whenever I wanted to change position. I was eventually able to get around, but I was restless and tired of being cooped up in a hospital.

#5

I got a bill for fifteen hundred dollars after the car wreck, to pay for a new telephone pole. The second incident isn’t as funny, but it is strange. I hallucinated that I had phoned my children, telling them where I was and what had happened to me.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

We are all descended from Chief Iron Shell, Pankeska Maza, a son of a warrior called Bull Tail. Iron Shell was a legendary fighter. In 1843, he killed eleven Pawnees during a single battle. He counted many coups and received many war honors.

#2

My great-grandfather, Stephen Brave Bird, had five wives. One of them was named Zoe Gurue, or Zoe McKenzie, my great-grandmother. He was a cowboy. He went on long, epic cattle drives from Rosebud to Texas and to the Kansas hell towns of Dodge City, Ellsworth, and Newton.

#3

My grandfather, Mom’s dad, was Robert Brave Bird. He was a farmer, hunter, and trapper. He had sold his corn and was driving his wagon to the big general store to buy groceries when he had the accident.

#4

My great-grandfather, Tom Flood, was a trader who married a Yellow Hair girl from Pine Ridge. He was shot in the back in 1906, and his wife carried his body six miles on her back to his camp. He was a tall, dark-haired man.

#5

Uncle Bernard was born on the Rosebud Reservation in 1922. He went to school in St. Francis, and later enlisted in the navy at age seventeen, serving two years on the Great Lakes Naval Station in Illinois. He went back to St. Francis and married a woman named Little Money.

#6

My mother, Emily, was raised the Indian way, but after her father died, she was taken to the St. Francis Mission School in Rosebud and she chose the white man’s road as her way of life. When I was six or seven, I was taken away from my grandparents and raised as a Catholic.

#7

My mother, after Grandpa Brave Bird’s death, was taken to a Catholic mission in Rosebud, and she learned English and Latin there. She was even taught how to play the piano. She put her Indianness aside and concentrated on studying, and it paid off, as she became a registered nurse and a school-teacher.

#8

The school at He Dog was built in the 1930s, and electricity came to Rosebud and Mission in the 1930s. The smaller hamlets had to wait until 1958 for electricity. When the Depression came, and everyone was poor, Mom didn’t notice because poverty was all she knew.

#9

After my mother divorced her first husband, Bill Moore, she had to earn a living. She didn’t want to live on government handouts, and she wanted to be independent. She had to go to a school that was almost a hundred miles away in Pierre, the state capital.

#10

The Floods and the Brave Birds is the story of my family, and it is not finished yet. I have grown up and become more tolerant. I now respect my mother’s beliefs and viewpoints, and she respects mine.