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Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian

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ISBN-10: 0472061097

ISBN-13: 9780472061099

Edition: 1961 (Revised)

Authors: Nancy Oestreich Lurie, Nancy Oestreich Lurie

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From pony to airplane, from medicine dance to Christian worship-- Mountain Wolf Woman, Sister of Crashing Thunder is the life story of a Winnebago woman, told in her own words to her adopted kinswoman, Nancy Lurie. This retelling of more than seventy-five years of Native American life is both a candid and compelling account of how one woman lived through a period of cultural crisis. Mountain Wolf Woman tells of her childhood in Wisconsin, her brief stay at a mission school, her marriage to "Bad Soldier," and her religious experiences with peyote. Her struggle to maintain her family against many hardships--odds that would have defeated a less vigorous and self-confident person--underscores…    
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Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 1961
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 4/30/1961
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.99" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English