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Pretty-shield, medicine woman of the Crows / Frank Bird Linderman, illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops.
Penn Museum Library E99.C92 L59 1972
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Linderman, Frank Bird, 1869-1938.
- Series:
- Bison book
- A Bison book
- Standardized Title:
- Red mother
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pretty-shield (Crow Indian).
- Pretty-shield.
- Crow women--Biography.
- Crow women.
- Women shamans--Montana--Biography.
- Women shamans.
- Indians, North American.
- Montana.
- Medical Subjects:
- Indians, North American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Biography.
- Physical Description:
- 256 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- New York : John Day Co., [1972]
- Summary:
- Pretty-shield told her story to Frank Linderman through an interpreter and using sign language. A medicine woman of the Crows, she was one of the few who remembered what it was like before the white man came and the buffalo went away. She tells about the simple games and dolls of an Indian childhood and the duties of the girls and women--setting up the lodges, dressing the skins, picking berries, digging roots, cooking. From her account we learn about courtship, marriage, childbirth and the care of babies, about medicine-dreams, the care of the sick, and the dangers and joys of womanhood among men whose lives were spent in hunting and fighting.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Linderman, Frank Bird, 1869-1938. Red mother. Pretty-shield, medicine woman of the Crows.
- ISBN:
- 0803257910
- 9780803257917
- OCLC:
- 340427
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