Grandmother's Grandchild My Crow Indian Life

Name: Grandmother's Grandchild My Crow Indian Life
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ISBN: 9780803292918

ISBN-10: 0803292910

ISBN-13: 9780803292918

Edition: 2000

Authors: Alma Hogan Snell, Becky Matthews, Peter Nabokov, Alma Snell

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“I became what the Crows callkáalisbaapite– a ‘grandmother’s grandchild.’ That means that I was always with my Grandma, and I learned from her. I learned how to do things in the old ways.”—Alma Hogan Snell nbsp; Grandmother's Grandchildis the remarkable story of Alma Hogan Snell, a Crow woman brought up by her grandmother, the famous medicine woman Pretty Shield. Snell grew up during the 1920s and 1930s, part of the second generation of Crows to be born into reservation life. Like many of her contemporaries, she experienced poverty, personal hardships, and prejudice and left home to attend federal Indian schools. nbsp; What makes Snell's story particularly engaging is her exceptional…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 215
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



List of Photographs and Maps


Foreword



Acknowledgments



Introduction




Grandmother's Grandchild



Pretty Shield and Goes Ahead



My Camp Is in a Different Place



Turning the Storm



Womanhood



Loneliness and the Night Sky



Assiniboines Have Strong Medicine



A Bad Time in My Life



I Have Crossed Three Rivers



Many Roads



Old Songs, New Fruit



Time Line of the Life of Alma Snell



Genealogical Charts


Notes


Index